Police Chief Didn't Know About 911 Calls Coming From Inside School As Uvalde Response Questioned

Gutierrez describes one of these 911 calls as a student pleading for authorities to take urgent action as the attack unfolded.

Senator Gutierrez labelled the response as a ‘system error’.

“Listen, I’m not blaming the Uvalde PD. I’m not blaming the ISD cops or the troopers. There is enough blame here to go around,” Gutierrez said. 

“There was human error and there was system error.”

Instead of calls being directed to the school district's police, they were relayed to the Uvalde Police Department, who work separately from the school’s authorities, according to Gutierrez.

“That’s an absence of leadership that starts at the top with the legislature,” he said. 

“Everybody’s to blame for what went on, including (Governor) Greg Abbott, in a big way.”

Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter, Jacklyn, was killed in the shooting, raced to the school after hearing a gunman had opened fire.

“More could have been done.”

He added: “They were unprepared.”

The south Texas regional director of the state’s department of public safety Victor Escalon also shared in a press conference that nobody 'confronted' the gunman, and, ‘approximately an hour later’, US Border Patrol broke into the classroom and killed the gunman.

Spokesperson for the US Department of Justice Anthony Coley shared that the mayor of Uvalde, Don McLaughlin had requested the investigation.

Coley said: “The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events.”