They also wrote, “And nearly 48 hours later, serious questions still remain about how an 18-year-old with an assault-style rifle got inside the school, what law enforcement did in response and how the gunman was able to remain inside for as long as an hour before a tactical team finally forced its way in and killed him.”Īlso, read this story from The Washington Post’s Jon Swaine, Joyce Sohyun Lee and Mark Berman: “As timeline emerges, police criticized for response to school massacre.” Cruz storms off He said officers arrived on the scene four minutes after the shooter entered the building and that the gunman was killed approximately an hour after arriving at the campus.”ĬNN’s Eric Levenson, Holly Yan and Elizabeth Wolfe reported that Escalon offered a “muddled timeline” for what happened on Tuesday and they added, “He struggled to explain why the police response took an hour, saying that would come further in the investigation.”
The Post also wrote, “A regional director with the Texas Department of Public Safety, Victor Escalon Jr., said at a news conference Thursday that the shooter was ‘not confronted by anybody’ as he entered the elementary school in Uvalde, contradicting earlier reports.
The Washington Post’s Bryan Pietsch, Andrew Jeong, Annabelle Timsit, Adela Suliman and Timothy Bella wrote, “Parents have criticized police in the aftermath, saying they were unprepared and acted too slowly.” Video has surfaced showing parents of the schoolchildren imploring police to go in, or wanting to go into the school themselves. What happened?ĭays after the shooting, there are questions about the police response. Now here is more media coverage regarding the shooting. Today, just as the past couple of days, The Poynter Report is dedicated to coverage of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two adults were murdered by an 18-year-old gunman.Ī note: The Poynter Report will not be published on Monday in honor of Memorial Day. We wrap up what has been a horrific week here in the United States.