Nearly 20 officers were in a hallway for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open a door and confront the gunman, authorities said.
McCraw said there was a barrage of gunfire shortly after the gunman entered the classroom where they killed him but that shots were"sporadic" for much of the 48 minutes while officers waited outside the hallway. He said investigators do not know if or how many children died during those 48 minutes.
Contrary to earlier statements by officials, a school district police officer was not inside the school when the gunman arrived. When that officer did respond, he unknowingly drove past the gunman, who was crouched behind a car parked outside and firing at the building, McCraw said. "The information that I was given turned out, in part, to be inaccurate," he said."And I'm absolutely livid about that."
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