The Texas House report into the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting charts a massive but uncoordinated and chaotic response from law enforcement.
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local, state and federal law enforcement. That began moments after the shooter crashed his truck on school grounds and entered the building, then continued through the excruciating inaction that dragged out more than an hour, even as parents begged officers to do something and dispatchers took 911 calls from inside the classrooms.
than any other officer on the scene that day, failed to establish himself as the incident commander and didn't transfer that responsibility to anyone else, the report said.And yet, no other officers stepped in to take over, despite an “obvious atmosphere of chaos,” the report found. Even Arredondo and another responding officer said they considered that possibility when they didn't immediately see victims after they entered the school.Whether school doors were properly locked and could have delayed the shooter's unimpeded entry has been a key question since the day of the shooting.
The report said a “vague idea” for a school shooting appears to have taken root in late 2021 and accelerated after the shooter had a falling out with his mother in early 2022.
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