WE LEARN FROM THE DPS DIRECTOR
HE BELIEVES THE SHOTS WERE AIMED
AT THE DOOR BUT NEVERTHELESS,
STILL, IF YOU ARE THERE, THE 911
CALL TIMELINE MATCHING THAT UP
WITH THE ACTIONS OF THE 19
OFFICERS, THAT IS KEY.
>> Bill: KAYLEE, THAT WAS A
STUNNING PRESS CONFERENCE.
WE ESSENTIALLY LEARNED THAT FROM
THE MOMENT POLICE FORCE ENTERED
THE SCHOOL TO THE MOMENT THE
SHOOTER WAS KILLED, THAT SPANNED
ONE HOUR AND 16 MINUTES.
WE GOT WORD THAT THERE WERE
PHONE CALLS COMING IN FROM
INSIDE OF THE SCHOOL, 91 CALLS
FROM TEACHERS, FROM STUDENTS
SAYING PLEASE HELP US.
ONE STUDENT SAYING THERE ARE 8-9
STUDENTS LIVE IN THE CLASSROOM.
WE JUST HEARD THE DPS DIRECTOR
STRONGLY QUICKER, CRITICIZED THE
DECISION BY THE LOCAL POLICE
CHIEF, THE STOOL THOUGH MY
SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICE CHIEF IN
UVALDE CALLING AT HIS DECISION
THE WRONG DECISION AND THERE IS
NO EXCUSE FOR IT TO NOT REACH
THAT ROOM.
HE SAID THAT COMMANDER DECIDED
TO TREAT THIS AS A BARRICADE
SITUATION RATHER THAN AN ACTIVE
SHOOTER SITUATION.
IN HINDSIGHT, THEY NOW KNOW
THERE WERE CHILDREN IN THE
CLASSROOM, POTENTIALLY STILL
ALIVE.
WHO NEEDED HELP.
THERE WERE 911 CALLS COMING FROM
INSIDE THE SCHOOL AS GUNSHOTS
WERE STILL RINGING OUT WHILE
THERE WERE 19 POLICE OFFICERS IN
THE HALLWAY WAITING FOR A
TACTICAL TEAM TO ARRIVE.
TAKE A LISTEN TO SOME OF THAT
CRITICISM FROM THE TEXAS DPS
DIRECTOR.
>> Stephen: AGAIN, I WASN’T
THERE.
FROM WHAT WE KNOW, WE BELIEVE
THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN --
>> Bill: AND AGAIN, THE DPS
DIRECTOR, STEVE McCRAW HE GOT
EMOTIONAL TALKING ABOUT ALL OF
THIS.
WE THEN FOUND OUT THE WAY THE
SHOOTER WAS ABLE TO GET INTO THE
SCHOOL IS BECAUSE A TEACHER
PROPPED A DOOR OPEN, AND THAT IS
HOW HE WAS ABLE TO GET IN.
WE LEARNED THE INITIAL TIMELINE
WE WERE GIVEN WAS OFF AS WELL.
KEEP IN MIND THEY INITIALLY SAID
THE SHOOTER GOT INTO THE SCHOOL
AT 11:40:00 A.M.
NOW THAT TIME HAS CHANGED TO
11:33:00 A.M.
YOU CONSIDER HE CRASHED HIS CAR
AT 11:28.
IT DIDN’T TAKE HIM 2012 MINUTES
IT TOOK THEM 5 MINUTES INSTEAD.
WE WERE TOLD, HAUNTINGLY, THAT
HE ESSENTIALLY GOT INTO THAT
CLASSROOM, AND FOR SEVERAL
MINUTES HAD FREE REIGN FIRING
HUNDREDS OF ROUNDS BEFORE ANY
OFFICERS ARRIVED.
WE WERE TOLD HE GOT INTO THE
CLASSROOM AT 11:33.
THE FIRST OFFICERS DID NOT
ARRIVE UNTIL 11:35.
THAT WAS A GROUP OF SEVEN POLICE
OFFICERS WHO APPROACHED THE
DOOR, WERE SHOT AT, FELL BACK A
COUPLE OF THEM WERE INJURED,
THEY FALL BACK.
THEY CALL FOR HELP.
THEY WAIT IN THE HALLWAY AND
THEY KEEP THEIR GUNS ON THE DOOR
AND BEGIN TO TREAT IT AS A
BARRICADE RATHER THAN AN ACTIVE
SHOOTER.
APPARENTLY, THAT 40 MINUTE CHUNK
OF TIME GOES BY.
VORTAC ARRIVED AT 12:15.
THAN THEY REPORT AT 12:16 THEY
GET A 911 CALL FROM A TEACHER
SAYING THERE ARE STILL 8-9
STUDENTS ALIVE INSIDE, PLEASE
HELP.
SO, I AM TRYING TO REDRAW MY
NOTES HERE.
THIS WAS A STUNNING PRESS
CONFERENCE.
WE ALSO KNOW THERE WAS A DIGITAL
FOOTPRINT.
HE WAS APPARENTLY ON INSTAGRAM
GROUP CHATS WITH OTHER PEOPLE
TALKING ABOUT BUYING GUNS.
THEY ELUDED HE MADE AN INSTAGRAM
POST, I BELIEVE THEY SAID ON MAY
SHOOTING.
HE SAID "TEN MORE DAYS."
APPARENTLY HE WAS IN
COMMUNICATION WITH PEOPLE ABOUT
BUYING GUNS COME ABOUT THREATS.
HE APPARENTLY ASKED HIS SISTER
LAST YEAR TO HELP HIM PURCHASE A
GUN, SHE SAID NO.
BUT, WOW.
JUST GOING THROUGH ALL OF THESE
NOTES.
IT TO HEAR THE DPS DIRECTOR
STRONGLY CRITICIZED THE ACTIONS
OF THE LOCAL POLICE HERE.
I THINK IT SAYS VOLUMES WHY THE
POLICE CHIEF IS NOT HERE AT THE
PRESS CONFERENCE TO TAKE
QUESTIONS FROM THE MEDIA AS
WELL.
SO, TO WRAP IT UP IN A NUTSHELL,
GOT IN THROUGH AN OPEN PROPPED
DOOR, SHOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED.
POLICE WAITED A LONG TIME, OVER
AN HOUR ESSENTIALLY TO CALL FOR
A TACTICAL TEAM WHILE CHILDREN WERE STILL NEEDING HELP INSIDE.
WERE STILL NEEDING HELP INSIDE.
GO AHEAD.
>> Bill: BILL, CONTINUE.
>> Bill: I THOUGHT YOU SAID
SOMETHING.
LOOKING AT THE TIMELINE HE WAS
FIRST ENCOUNTERED BY POLICE IN
THAT SCHOOL UNTIL THE MOMENT HE
WAS KILLED THERE WAS AN HOUR AND
16 MINUTES.
YOU HEARD DPS SAY THEY TEACH
ACTIVE SHOOTER DOCTRINE IN
TEXAS.
WHEN THERE IS AN ACTIVE SHOOTER,
YOU GO IN, YOU GO DIRECTLY TO
THAT THREAT, AND YOU NEUTRALIZE
IT AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.
UNFORTUNATELY, THAT DIDN’T
HAPPEN HERE.
HE IS CALLING THAT DECISION A
BAD DECISION IN HINDSIGHT, AN
INEXCUSABLE DECISION.
ESSENTIALLY THIS COMES DOWN TO
THE ON SCENE COMMANDER WHO WE
ARE TOLD IT IS THE UVALDE SCHOOL
DISTRICT POLICE CHIEF DECIDED
THIS WOULD BE A BARRICADE
SITUATION RATHER THAN AN ACTIVE
SHOOTER SITUATION.
HE BELIEVED IT HAD TRANSITIONED
INTO SOMEBODY LOCKED INSIDE THE
CLASS, DIDN’T KNOW IF THE KIDS
WERE ALIVE OR NOT, AND THEY HAD
TO CALL IN A TACTICAL TEAM.
WE NOW KNOW, THE NEW
INFORMATION, THEY ARE WERE STILL
CALLS COMING FROM INSIDE THE
SCHOOL.
THERE WERE SO GUNSHOTS GOING
OFF.
THERE WERE 19 OFFICERS WAITING
IN THE HALLWAY FOR THAT TACTICAL
TEAM TO MAKE THE BREACH, WHICH
DID NOT HAPPEN UNTIL 12:50.
TO GIVE THAT PERSPECTIVE AGAIN,
HE ENTERS THE SCHOOL AT 11:33,
HE IS NOT KILLED UNTIL 12:50.
BETWEEN 11:30: 33 AND 11:35 HE