Throughout the 73 minutes between 11:37 a.m. There was a forward surge after shots were fired in the classroom at 12:21 p.m., but no one went in.
It appears that no one got close to the classroom doors again until 12:50 p.m., when a team led by Border Patrol agents burst in and killed the gunman. One began to head back towards the key classrooms – 111 and 112 – but no one followed him. In a different part of the building, Engelbert urges colleagues to “go, go, go!” towards the sound of gunfire.Īfter being shot at through the door at 11:37 a.m., the officers in Uvalde retreated. They pass an apparent victim on the floor but do not stop. “Shots fired! Shots fired! Shots fired! Move!” said Officer Michael Collazo. Most officers were on the first floor when the sound of gunfire drew them upstairs. The footage shows one officer opening a door and another leading the way inside, each saying what they find as they clear rooms and move on. With no initial sound of gunfire, they started to search room by room. Sirens were blaring and emergency lights flashing as officers from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department entered the Covenant School building. No one touched the unlocked door or saw the shooter in the darkened rooms. As they neared the connected classrooms where the gunman had already fired 100 or so rounds, bullets came through the door and they retreated. Four officers came up the hallway in one direction and three from the opposite end. Smoke, bullet casings and broken glass showed the room he had entered. In Uvalde, the sound of gunfire led officers from the school and city police forces to the building the shooter was in. “Give me three, let’s get three!” he said. We have two kids that we don’t know where they are.”Įngelbert is handed a key, opens the locked entry door and, with other officers already arriving, calls out to form a team. In Nashville, a woman who appears to be a Covenant School staffer meets one of the first responders, Officer Rex Engelbert, and tells him: “The kids are all locked down. They then tried to direct each other on radios.
Officers coming from different directions could hear gunfire and used that to identify the right location, entering the westernmost building where the gunman was. In Uvalde, Robb Elementary comprised separate buildings connected by breezeways. Here are the key differences, and some similarities, reported from a CNN analysis of body camera footage from both instances and interviews given to investigators after the Uvalde massacre that have been obtained by CNN.īody camera footage shows police hustling to both scenes. In Nashville, it was “a textbook operation by law enforcement that was executed flawlessly,” said Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent and CNN analyst. Steven McCraw, director of the state’s Department of Public Safety. The response in Uvalde was “an abject failure,” according to Texas’s top cop, Col. Nineteen children and two teachers died in Uvalde, though at least three of the victims had survived the initial gunfire. Police in both Uvalde, Texas, last May and Nashville just this week rushed to answer 911 calls of gunfire.īut while the Nashville shooter was stopped within minutes, with six innocents killed, it took well over an hour for the Uvalde siege to end. Two active shooters in two elementary schools, both armed with assault rifles and both ready to kill.
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