many as 19 officers were in the school hallway. a student inside the class with the shooter calls 911, whispering on the phone. the tactical unit requested by those officers arrived. that s when the student called back and said there are kids still alive. 12:16, 911 operators know there are kids alive in the room. the shooter fires again. at one point 19 officers in the building according to dps. 20 minutes later, another 911 call begging police to get there now. 12:50, a tactical team breached the door to get inside and killed the gunman. an hour and 17 minutes from when police entered to the school to when police entered the room. why did it take so long to get inside that classroom where children were waiting for safety? it was a 40-minute gap. if the 911 operators were aware that children were alive in that classroom, why weren t officers notified of that. and if that s the case, why didn t anybody take action. that s the question. again, i ll go back to the answer for
teacher called 911 at 11:30 in the morning, two minutes after the gunman crashed his truck behind the school. he went into the building and fired 100 rounds. two minutes later officers entered the school from the same door the shooter did. by 11:51, 19 officers were in the hallway. 59 minutes after police were in the hallway law enforcement finally breached that classroom door and shot and killed the killer. the question is with all the police on scene, why didn t anyone do anything sooner? i want to bring in yasmin vossoughian and investigations correspondent tom winter. you were at that news conference. tell us what stood out to you. reporter: so much stood out to me. i think so a couple. questions that i asked i think were kind of the major standouts and that is this discrepancy as to how long it took from when
if the 911 operators were aware that children were alive in that classroom, why weren t officers notified of that. and if that s the case, why didn t anybody take action. that s the question. again, i ll go back to the answer for right now is that it was considered, okay, the decision was made on the scene. i wasn t there at the same point in time a decision was made this is a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. with the benefit of hindsight where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision period. there s no excuse for that. here s the reality. the police response, you heard him call it a wrong decision there. it s not even the standard practice in active shooting situation. it reflects an old way of doing things when it comes to mass shootings. most active shooter attacks end