A teacher did shut the door after earlier propping it open, but somehow it did not lock, police say.
Texas police have said the gunman who shot 21 people dead at a school last week entered through a door that was supposed to lock, but somehow did not.
Don Flanary said the woman had propped the door open with a rock so she could carry food from a car into a classroom, but she "kicked the rock away when she went back in" after realising a gun-wielding assailant was on campus. "She came back out while on her phone, she heard someone yell, 'He has a gun!', she saw him [the gunman] jump the fence and that he had a gun, so she ran back inside," Mr Considine said, adding that the employee had removed the rock as she re-entered the building.
He said the commanding officer had waited until the school janitor arrived with the keys because he did not believe it was still an "active shooter" situation.The first funerals after the shooting took place on Tuesday, as Amerie Jo Garza and Maite Rodriguez, both 10, were laid to rest.
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