They're a joke.
They got no business wearing a badge
for these leaders are not leaders.
Reaction from Uvalde as the Texas House
Committee investigating the shooting
addresses the community and we're seeing
a new perspective from that day after
the city releases edited body camera
video from evalee police officers,
there were multiple systemic failures.
And we take you through the 77 page
preliminary report given to families
and then released to the public.
Good evening, everyone,
I am Xavier Walton,
an important day full of
developments in Uvalde.
As more information is released after
the shooting at Rob Elementary School,
took the lives of 19 children,
two teachers nearly two months ago.
Tonight we do have team coverage.
Ronnie Lewis is in Uvalde.
Cheryl Mercedes has been pouring over the
report released by the House committee.
But we start with our Marcelino Benito
who has the newest body Cam video.
Of the police's response Marcelino
well Xavier, the city of Uvalde suddenly
releasing more than three hours of edited
body Cam footage late this afternoon,
some faces have been blurred
and some audio removed.
What you're about to see are some
of the key moments we found so far.
They paint a picture of that
day's chaos from multiple angles
and from the perspective of
multiple Uvalde police officers,
we want to warn our viewers.
Some may find what they're about
to see disturbing shots fired in
the building I got I heard somebody
said somebody shot in the head,
chaos and confusion. Are
we going to be staying here? What are we
doing as 25? You valdy police
officers descended on Raw elementary
from multiple directions ohh shots
get inside, go go go no
hesitation as Officer Coronado
seen rushing towards the campus
video released last week from
hallway surveillance cameras.
Captured activity on the
north side of the building.
We watch officers storm
in and approach the door.
But soon take fire and retreat.
Officer Canal is his body camera captured
the moment the gunman shot towards
them and they backed away to safety.
My wife, classroom teacher Eva Morales,
is husband UCSD officer.
Ruben Ruiz was in that hallway too.
The urgency clearly heard in Canals's voice.
Do we got to get in there?
To get in there, he skips me.
More. Officers arrive on
that side of the campus.
They're captured on Jesus Mendoza's
body Cam Police Department.
The police as they begin
searching classrooms for students.
DPS rescues the boy who initially spotted
the gunman hiding in the restroom.
He's rushed out to safety on the opposite
end of the campus was Officer Coronado
when he first stormed into the building.
You see a dust cloud after the
shooter fired his first 100 rounds.
20 minutes later,
his camera gives us a look at
the rescue effort underway.
Go go run over there as students
pulled out of windows to safety.
Officers also checked for students
inside classrooms rooms.
Mark backpacks and books left behind
when the shooting started its coronado's
Cam that provides our first look at UC
ISD Chief Pete Arredondo in the hallway
on the South side of the building.
Minutes later, the chief and another
officer seen trying to unlock a classroom.
Multiple keys tried.
None of them worked.
Meanwhile,
the clock kept ticking at 12:21 nearly an
hour after first officers arrived on scene.
More shots are fired.
No one moves in again.
Instead, you hear officers trying
to communicate with the shooter.
Mr Ramos,
please don't hurt anyone.
These are innocent children,
despite muffled responses earlier.
Hard to hear on the body Cam.
This time the shooter didn't respond.
5 minutes later,
Arredondo again on camera on the
Phone 7 minutes later Border Patrol
Tactical unit moved in to kill the
shooter at 12 fifty 73 minutes after
First Officer stepped foot inside that
building and one officer's body Cam.
You hear dispatch say the shooter's
uncle was on 911 and requesting to
speak to him to try and talk him down.
And in another video we see.
Officers inside the gunman's
grandmother's home.
You'll recall he shot her first before
heading to Rob Elementary again.
This is just a small part of
what these body cams reveal.
We're still combing through all a lot
of it for you, Xavier,
so telling Marcelino,
thank you and the mayor of Yuval.
They Don McLaughlin,
issued a statement on that decision
to release body camera footage.
Here are three major takeaways,
starting with number one,
the mayor agrees that with the House
Committee's report that the community waited
simply too long for answers and transparency,
Tuesday marks a.
Weeks since the shooting.
Alright, let's get to #2 here and the
city has placed Lieutenant Mariano
Pargas on administrative leave.
Now Pargas was the acting chief of police
for the city on that May 24th day,
the day of the shooting and
now to number 3 here.
The city has ordered an internal
investigation into the police
department's actions and
policies as well as procedures.
The city has hired Jesse Prado,
a private investigator with
decades of police experience.
And now we get to the newly released report.
The findings from the Valley School
Shooting Investigative reporter.
Mercedes has spent the day
combing through every single page
and Cheryl there were nearly
400 officers that responded
that day. That's correct,
Xavier 376, to be exact,
from 23 different law enforcement
agencies and the report from the
Texas House of Representatives
Investigative Committee found
that there were quote systemic
failures that went far beyond
one person or one police force.
Chaos cluster 2 words used by officers
to describe the more than one hour
police response to rob Elementary.
The committee's report indicates
no one took command of the scene.
The school's active shooter policy,
which was signed by a school district
police Chief Pete R Andando,
stated the chief will become the
person in control of the efforts
of all law enforcement and 1st
responders that arrive at that scene.
But Arredondo testified,
while you're in there,
you don't title yourself.
My approach was responding as an officer.
Chief Arradondo testified that
he immediately began to think of
the attacker as being cornered
and the situation as one of a
barricaded subject and didn't think
there were kids in the classroom,
but according to audio from
Sergeant Coronado's body camera,
he later contradicts himself.
Building so we were having
more besides what's in there.
Obviously,
while there was miscommunication
among responders,
the committee also noted several breakdowns
in the school security Protocols,
1 being had school personnel locked
the doors as the school's policy
required that could have slowed his
progress long enough to receive alerts,
high children and locked doors
the attacker entered through the
West entrance of the school,
but the committee learned the
exterior doors on the east and
South sides of the building.
Were also unlocked.
The attacker still would have had
the ability to enter the building.
A coach reported shots fired over the radio,
but when the principal tried to
use an app to notify the school
she had difficulty making the alert
because of a bad Wi-Fi signal,
and she never tried to communicate the
lockdown over the school's intercom.
As for the gunman,
the committee reports the attacker
had no experience with firearms and
that the shooting was likely the first time.
He fired one and the shooting
took place in the shooters former
4th grade classroom,
where his former teacher testified he
claimed to be a victim of bullying.
The committee also reported it
disagrees with a recent report
by the National Alert Center,
which revealed an officer outside of the
school was within firing range of the
suspect before he entered in the building,
but waited for permission to form a
supervisor to be able to fire at that person.
Now the State committee
learned through witness.
Testimony that the person was
not the suspect.
Rather, it was a coach who was
ushering kids inside of the school.
So much new information in that
77 page report and Marcelina
we're not only reading it,
but we're seeing it two in
those new videos, and that's
completely eye opening.
We're seeing both sides of the campus.
The response on both sides.
We're seeing our Redondo for the first time
and law enforcement getting a very
hard rap about their response.
But we're finally seeing the good they
did that day. They did get
a lot of students out alive,
several heroic efforts, and it was,
you know, what another emotional day.
Their families and the entire You
Valley community are on early Ruiz
joining us live now and aniella you
have been there several times since that
May 24th day and through the weekend.
What did you see and what did
you hear from families today?
Xavier the frustration for these
families continues after watching
these videos and after getting the
report today, the families tell
me they know there was failure.
But now they're asking for accountability.
It was yet another day filled with
lots of anger and frustration for the
families of Uvalde for almost 8 weeks.
They've been waiting for answers to
try and figure out what happened
inside the school on that terrible day.
Sunday they went to the junior college to
finally meet with the Texas House Committee
members to discuss the investigation.
Hopefully, after all the facts
come out and all the information is
collected that they'll find who was
to be held responsible for that.
And we'll, we'll start the healing process,
but some parents weren't allowed.
Passed the door.
Turns out they weren't on a list.
I was really mad. I told them there that
I was a father to one of the deceased
and they said that my name wasn't on
the list and I wasn't welcome there
that I had to get out and I don't know.
I don't know who was overseeing that, but.
It's it's not right.
I'm mad, I feel like my like they're
making a mockery of me being a
parent or the relationship that
I have with my daughter and I'm,
you know, I'm super mad about it.
Emery Joe Garza's dad wasn't the
only one that was kicked out today.
Annabelle Rodriguez dad
also was not allowed inside.
To my baby, you know?
Now I'm I'm not gonna know what happened,
you know, just I was gonna list
when we asked the mayor of Uvalde why
some parents weren't allowed inside.
This is what he had to say.
You're asking me something that you need to.
You need to be talking to them
and to the rest of the family.
I have no control over that.
He's inviting these families to these events.
The families made the list of
who was coming to that deal.
Get information, it was immediate
family that were allowed to you.
Again, you're asking me something
that I can't tell you on the parents.
They're telling me they're pointing
fingers at you, so that's well.
I mean, point to fingers at me,
but again, the families
left with one goal in mind.
Somebody needs to be held accountable.
You know who that is? I don't know.
You know we're gonna find out.
And again, these families continue
to push for accountability.
They tell me they will attend all
the meetings necessary to get that,
even if they get kicked out.
And by the way, tomorrow there
is a school board meeting where
we expect to see another packed
house reporting live in Uvalde.
Anayeli Reese KU 11 news.
Still a lot of raw emotions.
Nearly two months later on early Ruiz,
they're live in Uvalde. Thank you so much.