In
a statement after the video was published by the paper, Burrows said that while he was glad a portion of the video was made public, he was “also disappointed the victims’ families and the Uvalde community’s requests to watch the video first, and not have certain images and audio of the violence, were not achieved.”
The investigative committee’s report and the video are expected to be released to the public concurrent with Sunday’s meeting with family members. A news conference is scheduled for Sunday afternoon for members of the press to ask the committee questions. CNN will read the report once it is made public and will update this developing story.
The report comes nearly eight weeks after an 18-year-old gunman walked into Robb Elementary and began firing inside a classroom,
killing 19 children and two teachers. Key questions about the police response to the shooting remain unanswered since. Principal among them: why authorities waited
more than an hour in the school hallway before confronting and killing the gunman, a move that law enforcement experts say may have
potentially cost lives.
DPS Director Col. Steven McCraw has condemned the law enforcement response to the attack, calling it an
“abject failure” in a hearing before a Texas Senate committee
last month and placing the blame on
the on-scene commander, who state authorities have identified as district police chief
Pedro “Pete” Arredondo.
“The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering rooms 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” McCraw said at the time.
But Arredondo, who was placed on administrative leave by the school district, told the
Texas Tribune last month he
did not consider himself the incident commander and assumed that another official had taken control of the larger response. “He took on the role of a front-line responder,” the paper wrote of the chief.
Arredondo
testified behind closed doors in Austin to the House investigative committee in June.