want answers. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. reporter: texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. reporter: after damning new admissions from texas authorities. it was the wrong decision. period. reporter: the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. a decision was made that this was 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. reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. where we knew the shooter entered, ramos, was propped open by a teacher. reporter: investigators clarifying the timeline as police arrived. the
called 911. jason carroll now reports top police officials say it was a mistake to not engage the shooter earlier. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. reporter: after new damming n new admissions the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and the breach the door. take on the subject at that point. reporter: explained how the shooter got into the school. shooter entered, ramos, was propped up by a teacher. the three initial police officers that arrived went directly to the door and to
than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. cnn s shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers divergent a press conference friday. you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what effort were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at that time. why? the on-scene commander at the time believed it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. you have people who are alive, children who are calling 911 saying please, send the police. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. that s not we re well aware of that. right. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, the on-scene commander considered a barricaded subject and there was time and no children at risk. obviously, you
hindsight, hay hey, standby, standby. hey, standby. standby. of got it. from the benefit of hindsight where we are sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision. tonight s, hearts in uvalde raking all over again as we get a clearer picture of what happened before and during the horrific massacre at a texas elementary school. a public safety officials is a teacher propped open the locked door and later the commanding officer made a series of tragic makes calculations, desperate children called 91 went repeatedly and begged the polic to come help them. those revelations came on a stunning friday afternoon dues briefing detailing a number of decisions being seriously scrutinized tonight. jeff with the very latest tonight. tonight law enforcement admitting that mistakes were made in their response to the shooting that led to 19 student into teachers dying, the most glaring texas dps is while the clock was ticking 45 minutes went by with many
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