Law enforcement authorities also had enough officers on scene to have stopped the gunman within three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas DPS director testified.
Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, testified, giving his first public statements on the shooting since late May, when he cast blame at Uvalde schools police Chief Pete Arredondo for not giving orders sooner to breach the classrooms the gunman was inside.
Delays in the law enforcement response have become the focus of federal, state and local investigations. The public safety chief began outlining for the committee a series of missed opportunities, communication breakdowns and other mistakes. Arredondo later said he didn't consider himself the person in charge and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response. Arredondo has declined repeated requests for comment to The Associated Press.Tuesday night, the Uvalde city council is set to consider granting Arredondo a leave of absence. Arredondo is a new council member, who was sworn in after the massacre on May 24.
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