Police outside the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where the shooting took place. File photoWASHINGTON, Jul 18 An investigation into the Uvalde school shooting in Texas concluded that most of the 21 victims of the attack had died before police arrived, but some may have survived were it not for the slowness of law enforcement officers. The commission, which was set up in the Texas House of Representatives, found many «oversights and oversights» in the actions of both the school administration and the security forces, who waited 73 minutes for reinforcements before storming the classroom with an armed criminal. «It seems likely that most … of the victims died immediately when the assailant opened fire for the first time,» the report said. arrival of the police.» However, based on information about the victims who survived the attack and died later on the way to pain It is possible that some victims might have survived if they had not had to wait 73 minutes to be rescued,» the congressmen say. They blamed the school for not following the «closed door» policy, and the police for neglecting the «stop killing» priority, failure to identify the officer who would take command, long attempts to find the keys to the doors, one of which was probably not locked. According to the report, a total of 376 security forces took part in the operation. The victims of the attack, which took place at the end of May, were 19 schoolchildren and two of their teachers. Nine people injured in shooting at US mall
