The 18-year-old gunman, who crashed his grandmother’s pickup truck at 11:28 a.m. “I heard a lot more of the gunshots, and then I was crying a little bit,” she said, “and my best friend Sophie was also crying right next to me.” She turned out the classroom lights, as she had been taught to do. One of her classmates thought it might be a prank and laughed. “Everyone was scared and everything, and I told them to be quiet,” Gemma, 10, said.
She realized something was wrong because she saw police outside the classroom window. Then she heard loud popping in the distance, like firecrackers. Some of the students finished up work, others played around, “doing whatever we do,” as she put it. She watched “The Jungle Cruise” with her fourth-grade classmates in Room 108. Gemma Lopez had gym class that morning, and an awards ceremony. To the children inside Robb Elementary School, Tuesday began as a day of celebrations and special treats - movies in classrooms, photos with family in front of a glittery curtain and award ceremonies for students finishing their year in two days, as relatives proudly gripped their hands as they walked down the hallways. “Do we expect laws to come out of this devastating crime? The answer is yes,” he said. Abbott, who hours earlier abandoned plans to appear at a National Rifle Association convention in Houston, told reporters that state lawmakers would review the tragedy and determine what went wrong. Greg Abbott of Texas, who earlier in the week had said the police “showed amazing courage by running toward gunfire,” said on Friday at a news conference in Uvalde that he had been “misled” about the events and the police response, adding that he was “absolutely livid.” At others, he appeared overcome, his voice breaking. McCraw that a police commander decided not to go inside the classroom even as the gunman continued shooting brought forth an eruption of shouts and emotional questioning. But they raised the even more painful possibility that had the police done more, and faster, not all of those who died - 19 children and two teachers - would have lost their lives. McCraw, said on Friday after reading from the transcripts of children’s calls to 911 and from a timeline of the police inaction during nearly 90 minutes of horror at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.Īfter days of shifting explanations and conflicting accounts, the disclosures answered many of the basic questions about how the massacre had taken place. “It was the wrong decision, period,” the director of the state police, Steven C. The police officers held off as they listened to sporadic gunfire from behind the door, ordered by the commander at the scene not to rush the pair of connected classrooms where the gunman had locked himself inside and begun shooting shortly after 11:30 a.m. And they had been there for more than an hour. But they were already there, waiting in a school hallway just outside.
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