According to new reports, police didn't attempt to open classroom doors for 77 minutes before confronting the gunman in Uvalde. The doors were likely unlocked due to a malfunction, the reports say.
on Saturday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the investigation.The newspaper’s source also said that the gunman wasn’t able to lock the doors from the inside and that the doors could have been unlocked due to a malfunction., waited for over an hour in the hallway of Robb Elementary School before a small group of Border Patrol agents entered the room and killed the gunman.
The classroom doors at the school are supposed to lock automatically, but investigators believe the door had previously been reported as malfunctioning. Arnulfo Reyes, a teacher at Robb Elementary, told ABC News that prior to the mass shooting, he told the school’s principal that the door to his classroom 111 didn’t latch properly during security checks.
Arredondo and other officers took cover for 40 minutes “to avoid provoking sprays of gunfire,” the Tribune reports.
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