The gunman was shot to death at 12:50 p.m. by a border patrol member, wearing only a baseball cap, which was shredded by bullets.Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief Pete Arredondo was in charge and mistakenly thought there were no other children alive in the room once the shooter barricaded himself inside.

The revelation about the officers’ retention came shortly after Texas Governor Greg Abbott expressed fury at the contradictory and inconsistent version of events given by police.Abbott, who on Wednesday said officers entered the building and did everything they could, said they lied to him.

Victim

“They tricked me,” Abbott said Friday, at a news conference in Uvalde about Tuesday’s shooting at Robb Elementary School, in which 19 students and two teachers were killed by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who was ultimately killed. shot by police.

‘I am furious about what happened. I was on this very stage two days ago, and I was telling the audience information that I had been told in a room just a few feet from where we are writing now.’When I came out on stage and told the audience what happened, it was a recitation of what everyone told me.

.Abbott said law enforcement leaders must “get to the bottom of every fact, with absolute certainty.”He said it was “inexcusable” that families could have suffered from inaccurate information and ordered law enforcement to “review every second what happened and explain it to the public, but more importantly, to the victims.”

Investigation

.He added that uncontrolled bleeding was the leading cause of death among gunshot wound victims and that it can happen in as little as five minutes.Since the Columbine shooting in 1999, officers across the country have been advised not to wait for backup and to go inside the school to find the shooter.

Instructions from the Texas Police Chiefs Association say: ‘The first two to five responding officers should form a single team and enter the structure.’Why that advice was ignored at Uvalde is one of many aspects of the slow response now under investigation.

Attack

In the first few minutes, he fired more than 100 shots into classrooms 111 and 112.He continued to shoot ‘sporadically’ until 12:21 p.m., and it was not until 12:50 p.m. that the police finally gained access to the classrooms with a key from the janitor.

During the attack, teachers and children repeatedly called 911 for help, including one girl who pleaded, “Please send the police in now,” McCraw said.’With the benefit of hindsight, from where I am sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. There is no excuse,” McCraw said.

Quick Facts

• Pete Arredondo, chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, had stopped at least 19 officers from breaking into the school 
• Steven McCraw, director of Texas Department of Public Safety, said Arredondo mistakenly believed the gunman was contained and no longer a threat
• Two federal sources told NBC that teams of border patrol agents from their tactical division were on the scene by 12:00-12:15pm, but told to wait
• They stood around for 30 minutes before taking matters into their own hands and deciding to storm the school
• Arredondo is yet to appear at any press briefings but officials are facing increasingly angry questions about their handling of the attack.