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Despite previous claims by Uvalde police, the unnamed teacher at Robb Elementary School who propped open a school door with a rock, reportedly closed it when she heard gunshots, but it didn’t lock and the killer gained access.
New surveillance footage shows that the teacher who was blamed for propping open the door so food could be brought into the school was not at fault for the gunman slaughtering 19 children and two adults, refuting prior statements to the press by Texas Department of Safety Director Steve McCraw. The teacher’s attorney asserts she closed the door as she heard gunshots being fired at funeral home employees.
“She saw the wreck. She ran back inside to get her phone to report the accident. She came back out while on the phone with 911. The men at the funeral home yelled, ‘He has a gun!’ She saw him jump the fence, and he had a gun so she ran back inside,” the teacher’s attorney Don Flanary stated, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The teacher called 911 and slammed the door shut, according to the lawyer.
“She kicked the rock away when she went back in. She remembers pulling the door closed while telling 911 that he was shooting. She thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked,” Flanary asserted.
Breaking: DPS confirms to @TexasTribune that on day of the Uvalde school shooting, a teacher shut the door the gunman later entered from but its automatic lock malfunctioned. DPS is investigating why.
This contradicts earlier DPS statements that the teacher left the door open.
— Reese Oxner (@reeseoxner) May 31, 2022
“We did verify she closed the door. The door did not lock. We know that much and now investigators are looking into why it did not lock,” Travis Considine, who is the chief communications officer for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said on Tuesday according to USA Today.
Surveillance footage confirms the teacher’s account of what happened that tragic day just before the gunman entered the school according to a law enforcement official who spoke to the Houston Chronicle.
Another unnamed source told the media outlet that a different door in the building also had a non-functioning locking mechanism.
The revelation is yet another contradiction that has come to light in a shifting timeline of events that the Uvalde police have put forward. This follows the disastrous delayed response overseen by the on-scene commander who allegedly deemed it was no longer an active shooter situation once the gunman had barricaded himself inside a classroom, despite the fact that students were in the room with the killer and were calling 911.
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Texas Department of Safety Director Steve McCraw had previously admitted during a press conference that the commander made the “wrong” call in the tragedy holding back the Border Patrol tactical team who eventually breached the room and killed the shooter after more than an hour of delay.
Investigators are still attempting to interview Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, whom state police have said was the commander of the school shooting scene while it happened. So far, he has reportedly not cooperated with authorities.
Tuesday, the Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas, which represents police officers, urged its member officers to cooperate with “all government investigations” into the shooting and police response, while endorsing a federal probe already announced by the Justice Department.
“There has been a great deal of false and misleading information in the aftermath of this tragedy. Some of the information came from the very highest levels of government and law enforcement,” CLEAT said, according to the Associated Press. “Sources that Texans once saw as iron-clad and completely reliable have now been proven false.”
Appearing on “At This Hour” on CNN, State Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) claimed on Friday that there was never an official command to breach by police. Instead, Border Patrol agents grew frustrated and reportedly entered the school to confront the shooter.
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“What I have been told from law enforcement is that [Border Patrol] finally took it upon themselves and said, ‘we’re going in.’ That is my understanding,” he commented.
“That’s the failure in this entire system, in this entire process. We have multiple state agencies, federal agencies, localized agencies, and somewhere along the way, there’s a communications problem,” Gutierrez stated. “We’re not hearing 911 disturbance calls. We’re not hearing proper radio transmissions. I’m going to be asking for radio transmissions next. Kids are alive. Clearly, they’re alive. This is not a barricade situation, and the information is flowing in.”
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23 thoughts on “‘Lock malfunctioned’: Surveillance shows teacher slammed door shut, called 911 as shooter climbed gate”
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The police group in Uvalde shows themselves to be the most incompetent group of police personnel in the history of law enforcement. They should all resign because they failed intentionally to do their jobs of protecting society and especially our children. They should all be held responsible fo negligence to perform duty and charged for all the deaths. It is obvious that they were told to dtand down and none of these personnel had the courage to do what was required, COWARDS AND DEEP STATE SHILLS
Another “surprise” that keeps pointing me toward a planned event. Is there a coincidence of these shooting happening before a big NRA convention and after a “training for an active shooter”? Other information leads me to look really hard at the how and why.
For every door into a building locked or not the building is less secure. I have spent most of my life either in the Military or working for companies supplying services to the Military, I have always had an ID card which in most cases was the only way to gain access to that building. The ID Card reader woudl not only open the door but woudl record when that card was used to enter the building and when that card left the building. This is called security. Why was there a door that would not close and lock on this building??? Why is there more than one way into this building??? Putting a BAN on Guns will not stop killings. It might put a stop to killings by guns but not killings. There was a story from China where a mentally ill man went into a school with a meat clever and attacked teachers and children killing at least two teachers and four or five children. The shooter in Texas was known by friends and family to have some mental health problems, why were these problems looked into??? It isn’t the Gun purchasing that is the problem it is the people that are allowed to purchase a gun. People Kill People and they will use whatever means that the can get their hands on.
Mostly employment scams on this thread today!!! 😠 HOW DO WE STOP THESE bizpacreview??? HELP!!!
Oh,,,so the shooting was MEANT TO BE!!! AMAZING!
i would lie also if I screwed up that bad.
naturally, CNN won’t ask Greg Abbott, or the head of the Department of Public Safety. They have to interview Ruben Gutierrez, a Democrat, who has his own agenda, like O’Rourke, Garland, and Biden.
Are they running out of excuses yet? There is a mentally ill violent teenager posting pictures on social media holding a bag of bloody, dead cats he ENJOYED torturing & killing….AND NO ONE SAID ANYTHING. He was a habitual user of marijuana, but the Cannabis Lobby goes berserk if you suggest that should be banned. He asked his sister to buy him a rifle. His mother is drug addict and mix all that together and I don’t think the lock on a door IS THE PROBLEM.
Not mentally ill, YoungDuck — evil with criminal intent!! Can be nothing else given all the things he said and did leading up to this. I’ve worked with the mentally ill in a previous job, and he is not one of them!! I do agree 100% that the lock is not the issue. Also seems to be a whole lot of “spinning” going on — people saying one thing one day and something different the next day. Reminds me of mr fauci and his daily changes about the “panicdemic flu.”
I don’t buy it. There have already been to many lies. That lock “malfunctioned” like the voting machines “malfunctioned” in 2020 and flipped three out of ten Trump votes to Biden. The machines were PROGRAMED to do what they did, and that teacher UNLOCKED the God Damn door and failed to reengage the lock even if she closed it like she claims.
Maybe it’s just me but I find this story hard to believe. Teacher props door open with rock, then removes rock on hearing gun shots and slams door shut. Door does not lock due to faulty locking mechanism. Sound like someone trying cover their rear end plus sue the lock manufacturer.
If the rock holding the door open is correct then obviously she expected it to lock when closed (thus locking her out). Use you head man.
Another example of where an armed teacher, etc. could have prevented a disaster if armed properly & trained. Morons, of course, blame guns.
It all boils down to just one fact: the only person responsible for the killings is the shooter.
Guns do. Not kill,the guy behind the gun kills .
What?…. what is this?…or am I missing something about this SCHOOL shooting?—> (quote from article)—> The teacher’s attorney asserts she closed the door as she heard gunshots being fired at funeral home employees…” ???????
We need universal background checks for anyone who buys a lock. and no combination locks with more than 2 digits
This is why fools like cnn news readers, msnbc news readers and joe biden, who speak, accuse and babble first, without knowledge of what their talking about, should never be listened to.
Oh… it was the lock… the mouth piece sez
Yeah, right! Spin, spin, spin — surprised they aren’t dizzy and falling down from allt he spinning about this!