You said the outside door.
Was unlocked, yes, Sir.
Now was that locked.
As I understand it,
there at one time was a rock.
The teacher removed the rock,
the teacher closed the door
or heard slam the door.
We don't know really what all to believe
because we've heard so much stuff.
But was the door closed and and
did the lock just not work? The
only way you can lock these exterior doors
on the West building there's 4 doors.
One is for the library and
three or other entrances.
East, West and South.
The only way to do that is from the outside.
You can't do it otherwise.
So when she knocked the rock.
That it closed securely,
but she there's no way for her to tell
that the door was unlocked and the
only way to know that the door was
unlocked is is go out close the door OK,
then try it.
So that's the only way you can
tell on this particular model.
And but
he came straight through the door with no,
it was it was it was unlocked.
He walked straight through it.
So did y'all check the lock later to
see if the lock was malfunctioning
or was it working? Well,
yes, the locks were working
fine and that on the exterior.
Doors the locks were working fine.
Now I can tell you looking at the
picture here. You don't need a
key to get into this building.
It could have been locked.
This glass doesn't have mesh on it.
All you have to do is shoot
through this glass. OK, reach in.
There's a bar. Well, there's a bar.
Pull that and you're in.
Now the subject would have known
that he would have known it,
and the same thing.
These pains are also vulnerability.
Yeah, that anybody can
look at that and tell it.
Be easy to tuck a gun and shoot
those in it and reach it around,
but the the first question was the
lock was functioning correctly.
The lock was functioning.
Questioning the correctly
and the door was unlocked.
It was closed, but unlocked.
I thought when it closed it was
supposed to automatically lock.
Well, you can. You can set it to two.
You can set it to two
sections sections and I can.
It's similar to the the actual
door on the interior as well.
You can turn it all the way
One Direction it's unlocked.
You can turn it another
direction and it's it's in
the lock so the latch was
working functionally well.
It was just turned in a position
when you close it. It doesn't lock
exactly. Someone did not lock
that door OK and and similarly
the South door which the I
described officers going in.
Early on that door was
unlocked as well. Second
thing OK, you may have just said what
I was fixing to ask, but the classroom
door was it locked or not locked
the classroom door.
If we can get a picture of it.
Like this one is probably the best
example. To. If you don't mind.
This isn't the actual door well,
this this this shouldn't shouldn't really.
This is the actual door,
but we don't really want to use that.
This is what this is.
Room 127 and 126. That's what 111.
That's 112 and 111 would
look like in that regard.
And here's the door.
You cannot lock this door from
the inside of the classroom.
There's nothing that teacher could do
to lock the door inside the classroom.
The teacher can come outside the
classroom as the as the requirement
is to lock the door with it.
With the key only with the key.
When this right here by turning it,
you know and and and the the lock position.
And I can actually have the
door of a of another.
This is this came from the West building.
One of the doors right here
and I can demonstrate that if
you'd like at this time, Mr.
Chairman, so
the teacher could not even lock
the classroom door from the. Chad,
that's correct. There's no way to
lock the the door from the inside,
and there's no way for the subject
to lock the door from the inside.
We heard reports that the
lock was malfunctioning,
that they had turned in a request
for the lock to be fixed.
Is that all fictitious
or we have had it locks with inspect
the lock and the strike plate.
The lock was functional,
the strike plate was not was not happening
is so as you can see on this door here
is that yes the lock was working as
it was designed, but if it doesn't.
The strike is that through doesn't
get into the strike plate, it doesn't.
It may be locked, but it's not secure.
You can just open it. And that's that.
That that's you, know.
So you could either.
It could be the lock position ironically,
in the locked position or unlocked position,
and it's still unsecured and can be opened.