Four days after saying that the gunman who massacred children in a Uvalde, Tex., elementary school had gotten inside through a door “propped open by a teacher,” the state agency investigating the massacre now says the educator had closed the door.
On Friday, Steven C. McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, seemed to suggest that an employee error played a critical role,“That back door was propped open,” McCraw said Friday. “It wasn’t supposed to be propped open; it was supposed to be locked.”
Columbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland victims' families spoke to The Post about their shared grief, trauma and hope for action following the Texas school shooting. , an attorney who said he represents the teacher offered a different account. The attorney said the educator had called 911 to report the gunman crashing his vehicle nearby and closed the door while still on the phone.
The teacher ran inside to get her phone, called 911 and “kicked the rock away when she went back in,” attorney Don Flanary told the newspaper, apparently referring to a rock used to hold the door open. “She remembers pulling the door closed while telling 911 that he was shooting. She thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked.
Since the shooting, officials have faced withering criticism over the series of details that they have released about the shooting, only to later say. Authorities initially said the gunman exchanged fire with a school police officer outside, only to later say this never happened; they also said the shooter was wearing body armor but reversed course on that as well.
Authorities say law enforcement personnel who eventually stormed the classroom shot and killed the attacker, although an autopsy report has not been released.
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