The law enforcement decision not to immediately storm the classroom where a school shooter was killing children “cost lives,” Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said on May 28, as Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) called for the officers involved to be fired.
As many as 19 officers were in the hallway inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw revealed Friday. The officer in charge on the scene—who has been identified as Uvalde Police Chief Pete Arredondo—made the decision that the shooter was “a barricaded suspect” with no one else alive in the classroom, but 911 calls showed that multiple children were still alive at the time, McCraw added.
