11:27 a.m. before the suspect entered the school, he immediately unleashed more than 100 rounds, shortly after that, three officers entered the school and two of them were immediately grazed by the gunman s bullets. john: according to texas dps, as many as 19 officer gathered in the hallway as of 12:03:00 p.m. no effort was made to breach the door of the classroom until 40 minutes later. law enforcement facing questions and criticism over the amount of time that passed before they stormed the classroom to stop the carnage. uvalde mayor will join us in the next hour, but we have team coverage this hour on all angles. karl rove will join us in moment. alicia is live in houston where the nra convention is being held. john: bill melugin, what a news conference that was. bill: yeah, john, that is an understatement. i think our jaws hit the floor as well, one of the big highlights we learned from the moment the shooter was first encountered by police in that school until th
tuesday, but the gunman was not killed until just after 1 p.m. initially the texas department of public safety said the resource officer at the school fired at the gunman but steve mcgraw, director of the texas dps said he did not. it was a brave, independent school district resource officer that approached him, engaged him. at that time gun fire was not, changed. confronted him. he followed him right in immediately. so if this version of events is accurate, that means an armed school officer responsible for the safety of the children and teachers inside saw a man dressed in tactical gear carrying an assault rifle and did not use force to stop him from entering the school and killing 19 children and two of their teachers. nbc news reached out to texas dps for comment previously. the director said the gunman was engaged, quote, immediately and that two officers were wounded. inside the school a teacher heard gunshot as end of year celebrations were in full swing. speaking
school a teacher propped that door open, the doors are supposed to be locked when the kids are in the classroom. have you heard any explanation or any talk there as to why in the world that teacher would have left that door propped open even after he crashed his pickup truck into that culvert and started shooting at people at the funeral home and then was firing rounds into the school? bill: john, i ve got the exact same questions. it s unfathomable, and such a small decision had such a big impact. but what we are being told is the teacher first opened that door at 11:27 a.m., propped it open, one minute later, 11:28 is when the suspect crashed the car, gets out, the teacher apparently goes back in to get a cell phone and that s when the door was propped open after the
from entering the school and killing 19 children and two of their teachers. nbc news reached out to texas dps for comment previously. the director said the gunman was engaged, quote, immediately and that two officers were wounded. inside the school a teacher heard gunshot as end of year celebrations were in full swing. speaking to nbc news on the condition of anonymity, she described what followed. she shouted for her kids to get under their desks and sprinted to lock her classroom door. the children did exactly as they were told, she said. they d been practicing for this day for years, the teacher said, referring to the active shooter exercises. as the children huddled under their desk staying quiet as their wounded classmates waled from down the floor, the teacher sat on the floor in the middle