Video from inside Uvalde school shows officer running from classroom where gunman killed 21

Security video printed Tuesday by two Texas news retailers shows cops retreating from the classroom where a gunman killed 19 college students and two lecturers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

The video, which was recorded in a hallway and obtained and edited by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV of Austin, shows the officers arriving at Robb Elementary School at 11:36 a.m. May 24, three minutes after the gunman was seen getting into the school and strolling down an empty hallway. 

NBC News has not independently obtained the video, which offered the primary view of a legislation enforcement response {that a} Texas public security official has referred to as an “abject failure.”

About 20 seconds after the 18-year-old gunman is seen getting into the school, he turns to his left and opens hearth on a classroom. 

Authorities have mentioned he fired not less than 100 pictures with an AR-15-style rifle into adjoining lecture rooms crammed principally with fourth graders.

Chillingly, a pupil who KVUE reported had been within the lavatory — and was simply steps behind the gunman — might be seen within the video running from the gunfire after watching the preliminary burst of pictures.

The American-Statesman reported that the student was rescued later.

About a minute later, after a number of officers method the classroom, a second burst of gunfire may be heard, and an officer may be seen racing down the corridor. Two others slowly observe him.

It is not clear what businesses the officers have been from. Local, state and federal businesses concerned within the response didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark Tuesday night.

In the hour that adopted the second spherical of pictures, the video shows the variety of officers inside the hallway swelling.

At 12:21, a number of officers with tactical gear may be seen approaching the classroom, but it is not till 12:50 that officers enter and fatally shoot the gunman.

While officers are ready, one may be seen rubbing what seems to be sanitizer on his palms after he crossed the corridor to get to a wall-mounted dispenser.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told KVUE last week that the video “needs to be released” to indicate “exactly what happened.”

In an announcement Tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw blasted the discharge, saying the video ought to have been seen first by these hit hardest by the bloodbath.

“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,” he mentioned in a (*21*).

Brett Cross, the daddy of Uziyah Garcia, 10, who died within the capturing, advised NBC News’ Tom Llamas that watching the video was “heartbreaking.”

“We relive this every day,” he mentioned. “Now we’re going to hear it, not just relive it — it’s a continuous thing.”

He added: “Nobody is telling us anything. And it’s disrespectful to not just us but our kids.”

In an editorial published Tuesday, the American-Statesman mentioned it printed the video “to continue to bring to light what happened at Robb Elementary, which the families and friends of the Uvalde victims have long been asking for.”

At a listening to with lawmakers final month, McCraw described the response to the capturing as an “abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre.”

“The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from [entering rooms] 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” he mentioned.

The particular person state officers have recognized because the commander, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, advised The Texas Tribune final month that he thought of himself a front-line officer and never the one managing the response.

“I didn’t issue any orders,” he advised The Tribune. “I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open” the locked classroom door.

Arredondo, who has been on depart from the school district since June 22, resigned July 2 from the seat he gained this yr on the Uvalde City Council.