Col. Steve McCraw said Uvalde police had enough officers on the scene to stop the gunman within three minutes.
AUSTIN, Texas — Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas public safety chief testified Tuesday, pronouncing the police response an “abject failure.”
Eight minutes after the shooter entered the building, an officer reported that police had a “hooligan” crowbar that they could use to break down the classroom door, McGraw said. Nineteen minutes after the gunman entered, the first ballistic shield was brought into the building by police, the witness testified.
The public safety chief began outlining for the committee a series of missed opportunities, communication breakdowns and other mistakes.“It has been reported that he didn’t have a radio with him. That’s true. He did not,” McCraw said of Arredondo.In addition, McCraw said police and sheriff’s radios did not work within the school; only the radios of Border Patrol agents on the scene worked inside the school, and even they did not work perfectly.
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