An outside door to Rob’s primary school was not locked when it was closed by a teacher shortly before a gunman used it to break in and kill 19 students and two teachers, leaving investigators searching to find out why, state police said. Tuesday.
State police initially said a teacher propped up the door shortly before the shooter entered a school in Uwalde, Texas, on May 24.
They have now found that the unidentified teacher propped the door open with a stone, but then removed the stone and closed the door when she learned there was a shooter on campus, said Travis Considine, chief communications officer for the Department of Public Affairs. Texas safety. But, Considine said, the door did not lock.
“We made sure she closed the door. The door did not lock. We know so much and now investigators are investigating why it was not concluded, “Considine said.
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Investigators confirmed the detail through additional videos reviewed by a press conference last Friday, when authorities first said the door was left open. Authorities did not say at the time what was used to open the door.
Considine said the teacher initially propped up the door, but ran inside to pick up her phone and call 911 when the shooter crashed his truck into campus.
“She came back while she was on her phone, heard someone shout, ‘He’s got a gun!’ Considine.
San Antonio lawyer Don Flanari told the San Antonio Express-News that elementary school employee Rob, whom he did not name, closed the door after realizing that an armed man was at large. She was initially propped up open to carry food from a car to a classroom, the lawyer said.
“She kicked the stone when she returned. “He remembers closing the door while telling 911 he was firing,” Flanari told the newspaper.
The funeral is scheduled for the next two and a half weeks for the 19 children and two teachers who were killed in this classroom on May 24.
“She thought the door would be locked because that door should always be locked,” Flanari said.
Flanari did not immediately return the telephone messages left in his office by the Associated Press.
Investigators are also still trying to interview Uwalde Independent School District Police Chief Pete Aredondo, who state police said was the commander of the school’s shooting scene while it took place.
Stephen McCrow, Texas’s head of public safety, said Aredondo treated the active scene as a hostage situation and it was as if the children were no longer at risk as 19 police officers waited in the school hallway in front of the classroom where he was the shooter. .
McCrow called it a “wrong decision”, saying the focus of the investigation had shifted to Aredondo and the police response.
Other officials at Uwalde City Police and Schools continue to sit for interviews and make statements, but Aredondo did not respond to DPS requests for two days, Considine said.
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