Uvalde shooting

Burrows will lead a private briefing for victims' families in Uvalde on Sunday morning, allowing them to see the hallway video from a Robb Elementary School ...

The governor and McCraw have since said that video footage from the school surveillance cameras should be released. Burrows said Tuesday before the video’s publication that “we feel strongly that members of the Uvalde community should have the opportunity to see the video and hear from us before they are made public.” State Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Lubbock Republican and the committee’s chair, said earlier Tuesday that he planned to lead a private briefing for victims’ families in Uvalde on Sunday morning, allowing them to see the hallway video from a Robb Elementary School surveillance camera and discuss the committee’s preliminary report. See all speakers announced to date and buy tickets. Those calls intensified after Gov. Greg Abbott and DPS officials initially made several inaccurate statements about the police response. Last week, the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, located at Texas State University in San Marcos, released its comprehensive account of police tactics during the shooting. The Texas Tribune reviewed the footage on June 20, publishing a detailed written account based on the footage, other media reports and law enforcement records. He said families deserved to have viewed the video first before anyone else. At Tuesday’s meeting, council members formally accepted that resignation and set a special election to fill his seat for November. Many were heavily armed and had shields but waited more than an hour before they stormed the classroom. It depicts police arriving at the scene quickly and approaching two classrooms where the gunman, an 18-year-old Uvalde resident, was shooting. But hours after that announcement, the Statesman and KVUE published a 1-hour-and-22-minute version of the video, edited to remove the sound of children screaming and to obscure the identity of a student who ran from the shooter in the hallway.

A 77-minute surveillance video shows in excruciating detail how dozens of officers waited to enter the classrooms at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

They have appealed to the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who will make final decisions on the records disputes. The video tells in real time the brutal story of how heavily armed officers failed to immediately launch a cohesive and aggressive response to stop the shooter and save more children if possible. He plans to release both to the public. The video the Statesman obtained includes that footage. The audio from the surveillance camera at times is garbled, but it is loud in the crowded hallway. At 12:41, a man wearing blue rubber gloves and a black shirt, khaki pants and a black baseball cap, with a stethoscope around his neck, arrives and speaks to officers. Nineteen fourth graders and their two teachers died in the massacre May 24, days before the end of the school year. Armed officers walk back and forth and discuss the classroom doors and windows. None enters or attempts to enter the classrooms. Editor's Note: Our goal is to bring to light what happened at Robb Elementary. The video footage, audio and events described in this story are disturbing. They quickly retreat to the end of the hallway, below a school surveillance camera. Seconds later, a boy with neatly combed hair and glasses exits a bathroom to head back to his class.

Until Tuesday, the public has not seen footage from inside Robb Elementary leading up to the tragic deaths of 21 people.

The Austin American-Statesman newspaper published Tuesday edited portions of school surveillance video showing officers retreating from gunfire in the ...

"We do, I do, want to see the video," she said. "At the time we released our initial after-action, the information we had on this particular officer came from the officer's two previous statements given to investigators," he said in a statement. The committee was also planning to answer questions from the families about the findings, the source said. Gloria Cazares, whose daughter Jackie was killed, also implored family and friends on Facebook to not to share the video. "Those most affected should have been among the first to see it." It was unclear whether they had watched the edited video. He said publishing the video was part of an effort to keep individuals involved in the shooting response accountable. "There's no reason for the families to have to see that. They don't need to re-live that, they've been through enough," he said. The newspaper says it removed the sound of children's screams from the video. What officers were doing in the 77 minutes after the shooting started had been largely unclear The newspaper later published a second edited video.

The Austin American-Statesman and their television partner, KVUE, published edited and shortened clips of the video that include scenes from outside Robb ...

The committee is aware a portion of the hallway video has been made public. Earlier Tuesday, State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, said the entire footage will be released Sunday to family members and then to the public. That can be seen in the video, despite the gunman firing additional shots over that time period. The video shows some of them running toward the classrooms. “Those most affected should have been among the first to see it. Two teachers and 19 students were killed during the shooting.

Surveillance video of law enforcement's response during the Uvalde school massacre reveals the clearest account yet of how officers waited outside an ...

"PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THE VIDEO!! We need time to process this!!," posted Berlinda Arreola, grandmother of Amerie Jo Garza The report will show that there was not one individual failure on May 24, but instead a group failure of great proportions, the source said. Local officials and families of the victims decried the decision to release the footage before those impacted were able to see it for themselves. And I think that's the sad statement of what happened on May 24th is that no one was in charge." In my opinion, it was very unprofessional, which this investigation has been, in my opinion, since day one," he said during a city council meeting Tuesday. by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper on Tuesday, shows responding officers approaching the door of the classroom within minutes of the shooter entering yet retreating after the gunman opened fire at them.

The footage shows police in the hallways of Robb Elementary School, responding to the shooting.

Why it matters: Law enforcement retracted multiple statements about the shooting in the aftermath, sowing confusion and distrust in local officials. "I mean, they were going to see the video, but they didn't need to see the gunman coming in and hear the gunshots. "Those most affected should have been among the first to see it."

Officers are seen arriving at the Texas school and taking cover; after 77 minutes, they exchange fire with the shooter.

They take cover at the end of a hallway leading to the two classrooms targeted by the shooter. McCraw said family members of the slain and wounded should have seen it first. The sound of gunfire is then heard for more than two minutes.

Newly released video from the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, shows the gunman entering Robb Elementary School and how police responded to the massacre.

Burrows also said he was disappointed the victims' families did not have the opportunity to watch the video before it was released. "I am deeply disappointed this video was released before all of the families who were impacted that day and the community of Uvalde had the opportunity to view it as part of Chairman Dustin Burrows' plan. They are shot at by the gunmen and they run away.

Family members of the victims of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, expressed their outrage that video footage from the shooting was leaked before they ...

"We got to get the doors open.” "But there are also heroes: elected leaders, public officials, law enforcement officers, survivors of the massacre who want the truth out. "We continue to await the results of the ongoing investigation so that we, along with districts across the state and nation, can take informed action to enhance our ability to prevent future tragedies." Many of the requests now rest in the hands of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office, who has not yet decided what should be released," Garcia wrote. "Shame on you," said Berlinda Arreola, the grandmother of shooting victim Amerie Jo Garza, addressing the news outlets that aired the video. "Whoever did it, it’s a pretty chicken (expletive) action in my opinion," he told NBC News about the leak.

Newly published footage shows officers in body armor waiting outside the fourth-grade classroom where the 21 were killed.

He did not have a police radio at the time. He has defended the committee talking with witnesses in private to elicit more candor about what happened. Officials said the 77 minutes of footage they are preparing to release this weekend did not contain images of children. Busbee has not publicly addressed those claims and did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment left with her office on Tuesday. As the gunman approaches the classrooms, a child down the hallway can be seen poking their head around the corner and then running back while shots ring out. More officers, some with shields and rifles, then mass in the hall.

The Austin American-Statesman and its television partner, KVUE, published surveillance video taken the day of the deadly mass shooting in Uvalde.

The video shows some of them running toward the classrooms. The committee is aware a portion of the hallway video has been made public. Earlier Tuesday, State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, said the entire footage will be released Sunday to family members and then to the public. That can be seen in the video, despite the gunman firing additional shots over that time period. The video shows some of them running toward the classrooms. Two teachers and 19 students were killed during the shooting.

Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with an AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor ...

McLaughlin has accused DPS of minimizing its involvement in the response and releasing inaccurate timelines. Officials said the 77 minutes of footage they are preparing to release this weekend does not contain images of children in the classroom. State authorities have cast Arredondo as the on-scene commander and said his errors delayed police killing the gunman. Among them are how schools police Chief Pete Arredondo came to the forefront of the massive law enforcement response involving numerous local, state and federal agencies. Hours after the video was published, some residents at a Uvalde City Council meeting said they had not been able to bring themselves to watch it. “The parents could have seen them one last time as they were dying.”

Uvalde leaders and residents were at odds over surveillance footage showing officers' delayed response inside Robb Elementary.

She said the City Council should demand answers and “step on some toes” if necessary. Families “were going to see the video, they didn’t need to see the gunman coming in and hear the gunshots,” McLaughlin said. Martinez said his 8-year-old son was at Robb Elementary during the shooting. State Rep. Dustin Burrows, Republican chairman of a committee investigating the shooting, said earlier Tuesday that the panel planned to show the video to victims' families Sunday, then release it. Department of Public Safety officials supported release of the video, saying it would promote transparency without interfering with investigations. Mayor Don McLaughlin blasted the Statesman and TV station KVUE for releasing the video Tuesday afternoon before family members could see it.

Leaked video to the Austin American-Statesman showed what law enforcement officials did and did not do while an 18-year-old gunman shot and killed 19 ...

New surveillance footage shows every minute of what police did as they delayed more than an hour to enter a classroom and kill the gunman.

Kimberly Rubio, whose daughter Lexi was killed, wrote on Facebook that the world saw in that video a person shooting at a door, but she saw and heard the man who was murdering her 10-year-old daughter. Last night I spoke with a man who was standing on the side of the road carrying a sign that said in part that Uvalde police are cowards. But it is the first visual evidence we have of the bungled police response essentially in its entirety. We also see within about three minutes the first police officers arriving and approaching that classroom door, but then running to take cover as the gunman shoots through the door. FLORIDO: You know, there's no huge new revelations in this video because a lot of what we know happened had been reported before this video was released yesterday. This is mostly video from the security camera inside that school hallway, along with some video from outside the school.