Police officers with rifles were in a hallway at Robb Elementary School around 19 minutes after a gunman entered classrooms, according to Texas news reports.
on Monday night also reported the new details, citing records and surveillance video it had reviewed.But the reports could raise further questions about the long delay before officers breached the classroom doors and killed the 18-year-old gunman.
According to the Statesman, a reconstructed timeline shows officers were inside the school three minutes after the gunman entered.Pete Arredondo, police chief for the school district, at 11:40 a.m. called Uvalde police for help and said, “We have him in the room. He’s got an AR-15. He’s shot a lot,” according to the Statesman.
A lawyer for Arredondo did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the reports Monday night.