Texas Officials Change Story, Say Teacher Didn’t Prop Open Door Before Mass Shooting

Law enforcement work the scene after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images

After saying that a teacher at Robb Elementary School “propped open” a door that was used by gunman Salvador Ramos during last week’s mass shooting, officials in Texas said the teacher had actually closed the door.

The unnamed educator shut the door behind her, but the door “did not lock as it should,” Travis Considine, chief of communications with the Texas Department of Public Safety, told The Washington Post on May 31. “And now investigators are looking into why that was.”