Uvalde (AP) – A Texas state senator says the commander at the scene of a school shooting in Texas was not informed of panicked 911 calls from inside the school building. Senator Roland Gutierrez said during a news conference Thursday that the pleas for help from people inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde did not make their way to school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo. The Democratic senator who represents the city called it a “system failure” that the calls were going to city police, but were not communicated to Arredondo. The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety has said police didn’t confront the gunman more quickly because Arredondo believed the situation had morphed from an active shooting to a hostage situation. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed before Border Patrol officers broke into the classroom where he was holed up, and killed him.
