hour despite supervisor s at the scene being told that some trapped with him in two elementary school classrooms were in need of medical treatment. meaning they were alive. instead the documents show they waited for protective equipment to lower the risk to law enforcement officers. the shooter entered the school at 11:33 a.m. and began shooting into a classroom at least 100 rounds. two minutes later, three uvalde police department officers arrived, approached the class door and two received grazing wounds from the shooter. by 12:03 p.m., as many as 19 officers had gathered in the hallway they thought they now had a barricaded situation at hand. but at 12:21 there was more gunfire and the cops still did not move on the shooter. finally, at 12:50 p.m., law enforcement used a key from a janitor and breached the locked classroom, shot and killed the suspect. more than two weeks after the fact, uvalde school district police chief pete arradondo gave an interstrew the texas tribun
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at around 12:30, the transcript viewed by the times shows arredondo said, we re ready to breach, but that door is locked. arredondo told the tribune school lockdown measures were working against them. the class door was reinforced with a steel jab which officers were unable to kick down. at some point, a ontor provided janitor provided six keys that were unable to open the door and another key ring was brought later, but those were unsuccessful, as well. each time i tried a key, i was just praying, arredondo told th fatally shot. arredondo told the tribune he and his team responded to the information they had at the time. not a single responding officer ever hesitated even for a moment to put themselves at risk to save the children, he said. about arredondo not being the incident commander, about him
hour despite supervisor s at the scene being told that some trapped with him in two elementary school classrooms were in need of medical treatment. meaning they were alive. instead the documents show they waited for protective equipment to lower the risk to law enforcement officers. the shooter entered the school at 11:33 a.m. and began shooting into a classroom at least 100 rounds. two minutes later, three uvalde police department officers arrived, approached the class door and two received grazing wounds from the shooter. by 12:03 p.m., as many as 19 officers had gathered in the hallway they thought they now had a barricaded situation at hand. but at 12:21 there was more gunfire and the cops still did not move on the shooter. finally, at 12:50 p.m., law enforcement used a key from a janitor and breached the locked classroom, shot and killed the suspect. more than two weeks after the fact, uvalde school district police chief pete arradondo gave an interstrew the texas tribune