A door to a classroom where the Uvalde school shooter was holed up was unlocked while police searched for a key to get in, a top Texas official said, describing law enforcement's response to the rampage as an “abject failure.”
finally broke into the classroom where the gunman was holed up and killed him.
"There's no way to lock the door from the inside and there's no way for the subject to lock the door from the inside," he said. McCraw, the top Texas law enforcement official, bemoaned the long wait before officers finally confronted the killer. “I don’t care if you have flip-flops and wear Bermuda shorts, it doesn't matter, you go in,” McCraw said.in 1999, when police waited nearly an hour for a SWAT team to enter the building, law enforcement has stressed the urgency to engage the shooter.
"How about trying the door and see if it's unlocked. It's what we used to call a 'clue,'" he said. "Why not? Of course no one had."
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