In Uvalde, residents and relatives of those killed in Texas’ deadliest school shooting say their grief and trauma is being compounded by frustrations over the way local and state leaders are handling information about the massacre.
along with other victims’ parents and said it was unnecessary for the video to have been leaked and published before they could review it since it was coming out soon.
The leak of the video followed a series of changing stories and conflicting accounts about how the gunman got into the school, who led the police response and what caused the delay in killing the shooter. “At the time we released our initial after-action, the information we had on this particular officer came from the officer's two previous statements given to investigators,” he said in a statement. “We were not aware that just prior to us releasing our initial after-action, the officer gave a third statement to investigators that was different from the first two statements.”said school police officers had “engaged with the gunman” outside before the gunman got into the school.
that Uvalde officials had asked the head of DPS to sign on to a statement in June that would have praised police for their response to the shooting. McCraw refused, the Times reported. “They're not on the same page. There's lack of communication, there's incompetence, all those things don't mix,” he said. “Those are the people that are in charge of the school police, those are the people that are supposed to be keeping my kid safe.
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