Following a three-year legal battle, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District released thousands of pages of records related to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers. The released materials include text messages, personnel files, student records of the shooter Salvador Ramos, and police body camera footage. The documents provide detailed insight into Ramos' downward spiral prior to the attack and reveal campus safety concerns raised before the incident. Notably, the school district's then-police chief had attended an active shooter response training two months before the shooting, which emphasized that officers should immediately confront the attacker. However, the chief's actions during the attack contradicted this training, a factor that has drawn scrutiny. Additional records detail a slow law enforcement response and procedural errors, including agents leaving live bullets behind after intervention by the school principal. Media organizations, including The Associated Press, had sued the school district and Uvalde County in 2022 to obtain these records. The release also coincides with ongoing efforts to obtain related documents from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Two months before the devastating shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the school district's then-police chief was required to attend a training about how to respond to an active shooter, but did the opposite of what he was instructed. https://t.co/axjw8iiGqe https://t.co/EliPcelI8Y
The police chief did the opposite of what the training instructed would have saved lives, according to a newly released trove of documents from the Uvalde school district. https://t.co/GV9svgBic5