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Investigators question delayed police response in Texas school shooting
Updated On: 30 May, 2022 08:23 AM IST | Uvalde | Agencies
In all, at least eight calls to emergency services were placed from inside the room while law enforcement waited in the hallway
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at a makeshift memorial outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Pic/AFP
Investigators in Texas were seeking to determine on Saturday how critical mistakes were made in response to the deadly Uvalde shooting, including why nearly 20 police officers remained outside a school classroom as children made 911 calls for help.
Why the officers waited in the hallway nearly an hour before entering and fatally shooting the gunman is at the heart of an ongoing probe by the Texas Department of Public Safety into the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest U.S. school shooting in nearly a decade. Investigators are also still searching for a motive for the attack. Salvador Ramos, a high school dropout, had no criminal record and no history of mental illness, although threatening messages he sent on social media are now coming to light.
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