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Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo said officers responding to the Robb Elementary School shooting “probably would have rallied a little more” had they known that children were still alive and trapped inside classrooms with the gunman, according to a new Texas House Committee report.

Arredondo’s near-immediate decision to treat the incident as a “barricaded subject” scenario rather than one with an active shooter was a “terrible, tragic mistake”, according to the 77-page report, released Sunday.

“I guess, if I knew there was somebody in there, I would have—we probably would have rallied a little more, to say, ‘Okay, someone is in there,’” Arredondo testified.  

Before any law enforcement officers arrived on the scene of May 24 mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the gunman had already fired 100 of the 142 rounds he’d eventually use, the report found.

And when police did eventually respond, a series of shocking oversights, miscommunications, and assumptions likely prevented them from saving some of the 19 children and two teachers who were killed.

“It is plausible that some victims could have survived if they had not had to wait 73 additional minutes for rescue,” the report says.

law enforcement decided on arrival that the children and teachers in that classroom were as good as dead

virtually no attempt was made to risk themselves further as they were trained and heavily-equipped to do

It’s possible that a total massacre could have been averted if this had been viewed as an ongoing hostage/shooter incident

instead, dozens of police and law enforcement personnel settled into a siege mentality while awaiting further instruction from inept leadership

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