The Texas House of Representatives released a report on Sunday that took a thorough look into May’s fatal mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, per a Texas Tribune article ran by Austin ABC affiliate KVUE.
The online publication reported that the approximately 80-page House investigative committee report faulted what it called “systematic failures” that led to the shooting that claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers.
These failures, along with what lawmakers deemed “egregious poor decision making” by nearly every authority involved, paved the way for an 18-year-old Uvalde man to open fire at the school on May 24, Texas Tribune reported.
The website reported that the number of law enforcement officers who were summoned to Robb doubled the number of soldiers who defended the Alamo yet were unable to immediately respond to what would eventually become an hour-long ordeal because of an absence of clear leadership and miscommunication, the investigatory document determined.
“These local officials were not the only ones expected to supply the leadership needed during this tragedy,” the report explained, according to Texas Tribune. “Hundreds of responders from numerous law enforcement agencies — many of whom were better trained and better equipped than the school district police — quickly arrived on the scene.”
Other key points in the report included the gunman’s inexperience with firearms before the incident, the oversight from authorities in regard to his ability to assemble his arsenal and Robb’s purported tendency to prop doors open though it has an active shooter policy, according to the publication.
The report’s authors dedicated the text to the victims, whose surviving loved ones were the first to view it, KVUE reported.
San Antonio ABC affiliate KSAT reported that the families found little to no solace in the findings.
“You kept us waiting just like you kept the kids waiting in the school and don’t have time to answer our questions,” one unidentified woman said, per KSAT. “As a community, this has a long ripple effect.”
Another woman yelled at committee members to show more accountability, the station reported.
The families received their own copies of the report, according to KSAT.
