Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb Elementary School before he went on to kill 21 people inside the school, a senior sheriff’s deputy told The New York Times.
Messages from The Associated Press to Rios and the Zavala County Sheriff’s Office have not been returned. Rios did not immediately return a request for comment from NBC News. The Zavala County sheriff’s officials responded to the shooting in support of Uvalde and Uvalde County officers.
Rios said he had shared the information with a special Test House committee investigating the school massacre. Questions and confusion still surround the police response to a mass shooting inside an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Jillian Snider, Director of Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties at the R Street Institute and Dr. Donell Harvin, Senior Researcher Rand Corporation join LX News to discuss what went wrong and what could have been done differently.
Weeks after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, law enforcement officials have stopped providing updates about what they’ve learned about the shooting and the police response. Their silence comes after authorities gave
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