• Texas A young man kills 19 children and two teachers in a shooting at a Texas school

  • Shooting in Uvalde "There were parents willing to enter the school because the SWAT team did not arrive"

  • Salvador Ramos The author of the Texas shooting announced on Facebook 15 minutes before that he was going to attack a school

A video of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting released Tuesday shows

police waiting for more than an hour before storming the classroom

where the gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.

Texas Public Safety Chief Steve McCraw described

the police response to the May 24 attack as a "resounding failure"

and said officers wasted vital time searching for a key "never needed" to enter the classroom. .

Massacre in Uvalde

Texas.

A mother entered the school during the shooting and took her children out

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A mother entered the school during the shooting and took her children out

Texas.

A police officer was able to shoot the school shooter but did not do so for fear of injuring the children

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A police officer was able to shoot the school shooter but did not do so for fear of injuring the children

Surveillance video obtained by the

Austin American-Statesman

newspaper shows the armed 18-year-old man crashing his truck outside of Robb Elementary School and then entering the building at 11:33 am

carrying a semi-automatic rifle

.

As he walks down an empty hallway, a boy spots him from a corner and flees as the shooter opens fire inside a classroom.

The camera captures the killer firing dozens of bullets from the door before entering.

He briefly exits and is seen within camera range, re-enters the classroom, and then does not reappear.

Several policemen armed with guns are seen arriving in the school hallway

within three minutes of the first shots being fired.

They head to the hallway where the shooting is taking place but

back up when the young gunman opens fire from the classroom.

Over the next hour,

police are seen crouching at the end of the hallway

as reinforcements arrive, including officers with semi-automatic weapons and bulletproof shields.

At 12:21 pm, 45 minutes after the first officer's arrival on the scene, gunshots can be heard from where the shooter is hiding.

The officers burst into the room at 12:50 pm and

gun down the young man, one hour and 14 minutes after

his arrival at the school.

The video does not show any children being shot, and

the newspaper that published the footage said it removed the screaming from the original audio.

The Uvalde shooting, the worst in a US school in a decade, came 10 days after another 18-year-old with an AR-15 assault rifle broke into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, to murder 10 African Americans.

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