A committee of Texas lawmakers has released the initial findings of its investigation into the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde.
in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and two adults were killed by a gunman who barricaded himself in a classroom for more than an hour as officers waited outside.
The law enforcement response to the shooting has come under withering criticism in the weeks since the attack. In June, Abbott called for the Texas House to convene a special legislative committee to investigate the shooting, and the lawmakers released their preliminary findings in Sunday's report. The committee interviewed 40 people, including at least 20 law enforcement officials.
Committee members were set to meet with families of the victims later Sunday to discuss their report and answer their questions. leaked to local news outlets, including the Austin-American Statesman and KVUE, last week. The video showed the gunman walking down an empty hallway and stopping to fire into classrooms, as a student who spotted the shooter rounded a corner and then ran away. Three minutes later, the first police officers entered the building, and the gunman shot at them.
The video then jumped 19 minutes ahead and showed a more heavily armed police presence in the hallway, but officers had still not confronted the gunman. Seventy-seven minutes into the edited video, officers can be seen breaching the classroom amid a barrage of gunfire. Although Texas lawmakers initially praised law enforcement response, in the weeks since, local authorities have provided shifting and often between when the gunman entered the school and when U.S.
Government officials last week objected to the initial release of the video, with McCraw saying he was"deeply disappointed" the video had been released before victims' families had a chance to view it. The families were supposed to privately view the video on Sunday.
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