Uvalde school shooting report: Texas House committee report describes multiple failures and a ‘lackadaisical approach’ by law enforcement

Uvalde, Texas CNN — A preliminary report by the Texas House investigative committee probing the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre outlines a series of failures by multiple law enforcement agencies, describing “an overall lackadaisical approach” by authorities on the scene of the shooting in which 21 people were killed. Ultimately, the report found “the entirety of law enforcement and its training, preparation, and response shares systemic responsibility for many missed opportunities.” CNN has reached out to Texas DPS, US Border Patrol, the Uvalde School District, the city’s police department and the Uvalde district attorney for comment, among others. The school district superintendent and other school staff were denied entry to the meeting by several families, said one source, who described the meeting as “brutal … a lot of emotion.” Systemic, widespread and avoidable law enforcement failures detailed in report Surveillance footage shows that law enforcement entered the school minutes after the gunman, who had already gone inside adjoining classrooms 111 and 112 where he would kill the victims. But the investigative committee “believes this interim report constitutes the most compelling telling to date,” though “some aspects of these interim findings may be disputed or disproven in the future.” The report “provides some of the most thorough and accurate information released to date” about the shooting, Dade Phelan, speaker of the Texas House, said in a statement, saying the committee’s work “has provided answers to the people who need it most.” Shooter’s history and school’s security shortcomings Robb Elementary had its own issues, per the investigative report, which found that poor WiFi “likely delayed the lockdown alert” the day of the shooting.