A REPORT released yesterday by the Texas House investigative committee highlighted multiple failures by law enforcement agencies during the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

Nineteen students and two teachers were murdered by an 18-year-old gunman while police waited more than an hour before attempting to confront the shooter, who was finally killed, reported Anadolu Agency.

“There is no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives,” said the report. “Instead, we found systemic failures and egregious poor decision-making.”

The 77-page report was given to the victims’ families yesterday morning but does not contain all the answers as to why law enforcement agencies took so long to respond.

The investigative committee described it as an interim report, noting that multiple investigations were still ongoing.

“It’s hard to hear that there were multiple systemic failures,” said state Representative Joe Moody. “We want to tell ourselves there’s one person… that’s just not what happened here.”

The findings also detailed failures by the Uvalde school system, the shooter’s family, and social media platforms but did not pinpoint any “villains” besides the gunman.

The report also said that 376 law enforcement officials responded to the scene, but no one immediately went into the fourth-grade classroom where the gunman was, which the committee believed cost lives.

“Given the information known about victims who survived through the time of the breach and who later died on the way to the hospital, it is plausible that some victims could have survived if they had not had to wait 73 additional minutes for rescue,” the committee concluded.

State Representative Dustin Burrows said at a news conference that several officers in the hallway or building “knew or should have known” people were dying in the classrooms.

“They should have done more, acted with urgency – try the door handles, try to go in through the windows, try to distract him, try to do something to address the situation,” said Burrows. – Bernama, July 18, 2022.