The latest from the Texas school shooting and marched into the school through a door left propped open by a teacher. Ramos had crashed a pickup truck in a ditch near the school just before 11:30 a.m. The call was made by school district police Chief Pete Arredondo, McCraw said. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News A border patrol agent is seen carrying a girl on his shoulders. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News It is not known how many children were saved during the chaotic rescue. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Police officers help terrified children climb out of a window outside Robb Elementary School during the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Local authorities were criticized by parents for allowing alleged gunman Salvador Ramos to wreck havoc for approximately 40 minutes.
Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Local authorities instruct students to form a line while running out of the school.
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Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Local police officers are seen opening more windows outside a classroom. “There was no excuse for that.” Authorities found this rifle that Ramos left in his truck at the scene of the mass shooting. “With the benefit of hindsight, where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision, period,” McCraw told reporters at a news conference on Friday. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, admitted cops bungled when they mistakenly changed the approach to the standoff from an open shooter situation to a “barricaded suspect” situation. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Several law enforcement officers arrived at the scene of the mass shooting on a truck. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News A police officer helps a boy run to safety. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News A law enforcement officer puts his hands up showing children where to run for refuge. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Both local authorities and border agents rushed to Robb Elementary School to rescue children. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Police officers escort children to safety through the grass outside Robb Elementary School. Law enforcement agencies Uvalde, Texas were initially criticized for not responding to the school shooting quickly enough. More than a dozen cops were inside the building while 18-year-old shooter Salvador Ramos was holed up in two interlocking classrooms and two terrified youngsters called 911 multiple times begging for help as they witnessed the slaughter – but cops stood back for more than 40 minutes rather than breach the door, a top cop said Friday. Several parents readied to head into the building themselves, the images showed.
Previous videos showed desperate parents pleading with officers to storm the building, as cops appeared to stand back outside. The new images are the latest to emerge outside of the school as questions swirl about law enforcement’s response to the mass shooting, which left 19 children and two adults dead. Local cops and US Customs and Border Protection agents are seen in the images, helping open a window to help kids with visible looks of terror on their faces.
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