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UCISD had a culture of complacency regarding locked-door policies. Both exterior and interior doors were routinely left unlocked, and there was no enforced system of accountability for these policies. Door audits were conducted, but not done systematically, nor were they documented. On May 24, all of the exterior doors and at least eight interior doors of the West Building, where the incident took place, were unlocked. (Observation 8)

School districts should invest in upgrading or replacing all doors (or locks) throughout its campuses to remedy this issue, so that doors can be locked from the inside. (Recommendation 9.1)

The exterior doors to the Robb Elementary West Building are required by policy to be set to lock. However, the only way to confirm that they are locked is by opening the door and testing the handle from the outside.

the CIR team believes there is a possibility that the initial assault included entering each of the classrooms from the hallway.

Observation 4: Body-worn camera (BWC) video captures officers walking into the crime scene without an investigative purpose or responsibility in the immediate aftermath of the incident. Furthermore, in the days that followed, crime scene preservation was compromised, and the crime scene team had to continually stop and start their important work when non-investigatory personnel entered the hallway and classrooms 111/112 for the purpose of viewing the scene.648
648 CIR Fact Finding.
Recommendation 4.1: Leaders must respect the integrity of the crime scene and only access it with a declared and documented legitimate purpose. Crime scenes need to be held without contamination until completed. The crime scene team should be permitted to do their methodical work without continuous interruptions by VIPs who want to enter the crime scene but have no probative need to do so.

Observation 5: The crime scene at the car wreck was washed out by rain prior to the collection of any evidence. The FBI offered to process the truck and warned of the rain coming, suggesting they move the truck to a secure and dry location. They also offered to cover the truck with a tarp. These offers were rebuffed by TXDPS leadership.
Recommendation 5.1: Investigative teams must properly assess weather conditions and the timing of investigative activities—particularly evidence collection—that must be conducted outside in the elements.

philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:55 am https://apple.news/AzxqOxPWaSc24a6ZVvYuKqQ

DOJ report. Police response a failure.

Took 600 days to figure that out.

Grayling813 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 9:16 am

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 1:55 pm
Anyone figure out how he bought expensive guns working at Burger King?

Hmmmm.....how do you spell FBI?

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 1:55 pm

Paladin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:50 am Girl, 15, got text from Uvalde school shooter before he massacred 21 - but did nothing

The teenage girl just replied "cool" and did not alert the police

I just wonder who else encouraged/enabled Ramos. My guess is Arredondo knew who Ramos was, but took no action against him, even though Ramos should have been in jail for unlawful threats and animal cruelty.

Anyone figure out how he bought expensive guns working at Burger King? Anyone in govt trying to find out?

The teenage girl just replied "cool" and did not alert the police

philip964 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:41 pm

crazy2medic wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:26 pm Just watch the transcript from Arredondo's report, he Actually Stated that he ordered them to not do what they trained to do and basically said he hoped the gunman didn't kill to many but they had him contained! OMG, he's as guilty as the shooter!

I believe there was a recent report that said the officers at the scene thought all the kids were dead, when they were not. Many only died later at the hospital.

In the video, multiple gunshots can be heard inside the school.

"He's in the classroom," an officer can be heard saying. "We gotta get in there, he just keeps shooting."

Body-camera video shows Arredondo giving instructions to officers, including someone he was talking with on his cellphone.

It also shows him telling officers not to move in as he tried keys on the door of what appears to be classroom 109, near where the shooter was, according to body-cam recordings and a schematic of the building released by DPS in May.

“Tell them to (expletive) wait,” Arredondo said. “No one comes in.”

Arredondo’s statement said “it is important to note that Chief Arredondo, along with several other officers in the hallway, were completely unaware of any occupants in the room with the shooter until entry was made, the shooter was engaged, and the officers stopped him.”
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“Child called...and said he is in a room full of victims at this moment,” the dispatcher said.

Mendoza’s camera shows that officers spread the word at an entrance and in a section of hallway across from where Arredondo was.

About 12:19 p.m., Mendoza’s body camera caught the sound of three or four gunshots. At 12:21 p.m., a dispatcher tells officers about another 911 call from the classrooms where the shooter was.

“Be advised we do have a student on the line saying they just took three shots,” the dispatcher said.