Newspaper American statesman of Austin Surveillance video clips were released on Tuesday showing policemen retreating and waiting in the hallway of Robb’s elementary school in Uvalde, Texassince the fatal shooting took place on 24 May.
The footage shows the shooter, later identified as Salvador Ramos, 18 years old, walking unhindered down a corridor with a semi-automatic rifle. Shots are heard as the shooter enters the classroom.
The boy spots him around the corner and runs away as the shooter opens fire in the classroom.
The camera captures the killer firing dozens of bullets from the door before entering. He briefly exits and is seen within camera range, re-enters the classroom, and then doesn’t reappear.
Police actions
Officers – local, state and federal, heavily armed and dressed in flak jackets, hard hats and, in some cases, shields – can be seen fleeing at the first shots that appear to be aimed at them.
They can then be seen walking up and down the hallway, some leaving the frame and then reappearing.
Others aim weapons at the class, talk, call cell phones, send text messages, or look at blueprints. No one enters or tries to enter the classroom.
Even after hearing the last shots 45 minutes after the police arrived, they are still waiting.
When the federal agents finally entered the room where bouquets and they killed him an hour and 14 minutes had passed since the arrival of the officers. By then, the shooter had killed 19 children and two teachers and injured 17 people.
Texas
The video was published by a newspaper when the legislative committee Texas which is investigating the shooting, plans to show the full footage of more than an hour next Sunday to the families of the victims and then to the general public.
“First, we will meet with members of the community and give them the opportunity to watch the video from the hallway and discuss our preliminary report. We will release both materials shortly thereafter,” a state spokesman said on Twitter on Tuesday. Dustin Burroughschairman of the investigative committee.
Shooting uvaldeThe worst recorded in an American school in a decade came 10 days after another 18-year-old broke into a Buffalo supermarket with an AR-15 assault rifle. New Yorkto kill 10 African Americans.
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