Texas School Shooting: Uvalde Police, School District No Longer Cooperating With State's Public Safety's Probe

The Texas school shooting probe by the Texas Department of Public Safety took another turn when it was reported that Uvalde police and the school district have stopped cooperating with the investigation.

Forbes reported that law enforcement sources cited that both Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department are not cooperating with the probe.

The two separate agencies decided to stop cooperation after a Friday press conference, wherein Texas DPS head Steve McCraw called out the school district police department for waiting an hour amid the Texas school shooting before breaching the classroom.

Meanwhile, the federal Department of Justice is also doing its own after-action review of the Texas school shooting following a request from Uvalde officials.

Texas School Shooting Probe

A spokesperson for Texas DPS said that the Uvalde police and Uvalde school district police have been cooperating with investigators.

ABC News noted that the chief of Uvalde CISD Police has provided an initial interview but has not responded to a request for a follow-up interview with the Texas Rangers that was made two days ago.

Meanwhile, the Uvalde police chief and spokesperson for the Uvalde Independent School District did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

McCraw called the delayed police entry into the classroom "the wrong decision," where 19 children and two teachers were shot to death.

He also said that the officers' decision during the shooting was contrary to both protocol and initial accounts from local authorities, according to an ABC 30 News report.

Texas DPS has also been correcting initial comments that a teacher left a door propped open, which the gunman used to enter the school before the shooting.

The agency's press secretary Ericka Miller noted that investigators have now determined that the teacher closed the door, but it did not lock.

Authorities are now looking into why the door did not lock.

The Uvalde elementary school shooting is considered one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

Uvalde Elementary School Shooting

Salvador Ramos was identified as the 18-year-old gunman who also shot his grandmother in the face.

A neighbor heard a shot as he was in the yard and saw Ramos speeding away in a pickup truck, with the shot elderly coming toward him asking for help.

Around 11:28 a.m., two men saw Ramos at a nearby funeral home, heard the crash, and ran out to see what happened.

The witnesses reported that they saw Ramos jump out of the passenger side carrying an AR-15-style rifle and a bag full of ammunition, as reported by Associated Press News.

The men ran, and Ramos fired at them but did not hit them.

McCraw said that Ramos entered the school and began shooting into two adjoining classrooms 111 and 112, wherein he fired more than 100 rounds.

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the Texas school shooting. Ramos was also killed when law enforcement entered the room.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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