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Uvalde video offers clearest view of police response -- but will it be released?
USA TODAY via Yahoo NewsA single Robb Elementary School security camera, mounted at the end of a hallway, captured the horror and devastating law enforcement mistakes that unfolded for more than an hour on May 24.
A 77-minute recording from that camera offers an unabridged view of police inaction, among the clearest accounts of what happened before and after 19 fourth graders and two teachers were gunned down in their classrooms. It also is at the center of a political struggle over what public information from that day should be released and by whom.
Viewed by the American-Statesman, part of the USA TODAY Network, the video shows the 18-year-old gunman dressed in all black with a backpack casually walk into a rear entrance of the school carrying the AR-15 he purchased a week earlier after his birthday. At 11:33 a.m., he pauses briefly at a closed classroom door decorated with the words “welcome class” before turning right into the main hall.
He continues to walk uninterrupted down the empty hallway – past a bulletin board and hand sanitizer station mounted on the wall – until he reaches Room 111. The camera shows him turning to his left and unleashing a barrage of gunfire as he advances toward the room. A boy who apparently was in the bathroom is seen peeking around the corner before police later rescue him.
A 77-minute recording from that camera offers an unabridged view of police inaction, among the clearest accounts of what happened before and after 19 fourth graders and two teachers were gunned down in their classrooms. It also is at the center of a political struggle over what public information from that day should be released and by whom.
Viewed by the American-Statesman, part of the USA TODAY Network, the video shows the 18-year-old gunman dressed in all black with a backpack casually walk into a rear entrance of the school carrying the AR-15 he purchased a week earlier after his birthday. At 11:33 a.m., he pauses briefly at a closed classroom door decorated with the words “welcome class” before turning right into the main hall.
He continues to walk uninterrupted down the empty hallway – past a bulletin board and hand sanitizer station mounted on the wall – until he reaches Room 111. The camera shows him turning to his left and unleashing a barrage of gunfire as he advances toward the room. A boy who apparently was in the bathroom is seen peeking around the corner before police later rescue him.