The officer in charge at the scene of the shooting at a Texas elementary school last week was not aware of the frequent and frantic 911 calls being made by students trapped inside, a Texas lawmaker said.
A Texas lawmaker said that the officer in charge at the scene of the shooting was not aware of the frantic 911 calls being made by students inside the building
Instead of alerting the police chief in charge of the school, calls were relayed to the Uvalde Police Department, which is a separate operation from the school district’s police. As a result, students were locked inside the classroom with the gunman for over an hour while nearly 20 officers stood outside the building waiting.
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