The nearly 600-page report released by the Department of Justice on the handling of the Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde cited KXAN coverage.
don. there are major questions tonight about the man who was in charge of this uvalde shooting response. is he cooperating with the investigation or not? reporter: well, it depends who you ask. the texas department of public safety told us yesterday they hadn t heard from him in days in regards to their request for a follow-up interview. and then today, only after being confronted by shimon prokupecz, the school s police chief said that: we re going to talk to you about what department. i just aukd with him. i know you did. just so y all know. we re not going to risk anything. we have people in our community being buried. i just want your reaction that the director saying you were responsible for going into
state investigation into this and is prepared to review the results of it and determine whether criminal charges need to be filed in regards to the law enforcement potentially response to this particular shooting, don. there are major questions tonight about the man who was in charge of this uvalde shooting response. is he cooperating with the investigation or not, omar? reporter: well, it depends who you ask because the texas department of public safety told us yesterday that they hadn t heard from him in days in regards to their request for a follow-up interview. but then today only after being confronted by my colleague here on the ground, shimon prokupecz, the school s police chief said this. i want to talk to you about we re not going to release anything. we have people in our community
i understand did you get a chance to speak to your loved ones? yes. fortunately for those families, not everyone could say that or make that same constant. these deserve better than this. these things are and it s time to wake up and address them. did you know any of the families involved in this incident, it s different than uvalde because tulsa police officers adjust yesterday they had training on ak thooter incidents. you sap you re impressed with their level of response. i am. i just can t say enough good things about them. we can do so much more here in
out, finding that out and how it s tied together and how it involves this man who s now dead after killing himself after killing four people. gary standby. i want to get to omar who s in uvalde, texas, now. we re getting new details about the initial response to the elementary school shooting there. what can you tell us about that? reporter: there was a would-benisher stationed across the street frantically trying to reach the shooter. the mayor told the post he was standing next to this negotiator whose purpose was to try or whose main goal i should say was to try and get this shooter on the phone. meanwhile, of course, there s a lot being put into what happened inside this particular school. we learned from the uvalde county district attorney that she is reviewing the ongoing