The investigative committee's report begins with brief portraits of the 21 victims.

Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo made everyone laugh, Amerie Jo Garza kissed her three-year-old brother goodbye every morning before school.

Jayce Carmelo Luevanos was crazy about dinosaurs.

However, the name of the perpetrator who shot 19 fourth graders and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas is not found on the 77 pages.

The 18-year-old, who was later shot dead by police, should not be "glorified," the committee of inquiry into the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde wrote on May 24.

Sofia Dreisbach

North American political correspondent based in Washington.

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Right at the beginning of the report, it makes it clear that nobody acted out of malice or evil motives.

"Instead, we found systematic failure and incredibly bad decisions." According to the report, the mistakes are not only made by the investigators.

For example, the school did not adequately secure the premises, teachers did not follow safety rules and left doors open, and the school district failed to regularly check doors and locks.

Chief of Police has to go

But the report from the House of Representatives in Texas also says, and this is the part that particularly concerns the bereaved: "The emergency services [...] have failed to put saving the lives of innocent victims above their own safety." It took "unacceptably long" for the officers in front of the classroom to turn off the shooter.

The school district police chief, Pedro Arredondo, did not take over the command of the operation, contrary to what was planned in the plan for such cases.

Even among the "hundreds of emergency services from numerous law enforcement agencies" who were better equipped and trained, no one took the initiative.

The decision to intervene was finally made by a small group of officials.

Video footage released last week shows dozens of heavily armed officers gathering in the hallway for more than an hour before eventually storming the classroom where the perpetrator was holed up.

While a police officer was widely criticized for having disinfected his hands on a dispenser in between, it became known that another had been on the cell phone,

A new video from a body camera shows the chaos of the first few minutes at the scene.

Some officers run into the hallway;

however, the officer with the camera retreats in front of the building after the perpetrator has fired shots.

In an initial assessment of the situation, he says the man barricaded himself in one of the offices - not in a classroom.

Later, the recording released by Uvalde's Mayor Don McLaughlin on Sunday shows Arredondo negotiating with the perpetrator.

The policeman with the camera on his body asks at one point when he is standing in front of the building: "What are we actually doing here?"

After the killing spree and the handling of information about the operation, there was a "loss of trust in the government," writes the committee of inquiry.

After the report was released, Mayor McLaughlin said it didn't answer all the questions but was "the most honest thing they've given us yet."

He also announced the first personal consequences: Mariano Pargas, the chief of police in Uvalde that day, had been suspended.