80 Minutes It Takes Police To Decide To Enter Texas School And Kill The Shooter

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JAKARTA - The lives of students and teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas have been lost due to the behavior of an 18-year-old teenager who indulged in a gun. There were over 100 bullets fired on that darkest day.

But now revealed a failure in handling. A wrong strategy that makes more victims fall.

NBC News even narrated a series of 'amazing' failures. All was revealed by the head of the state's Department of Public Safety at a news conference that followed days of confusion, inconsistency and anger erupting over the police response to terror in Uvalde, Texas.

"In hindsight, where I'm sitting right now, it certainly wasn't the right decision. It was the wrong decision," said Steve McCraw, Texas Department of Public Safety Director, Saturday, May 28.

"There are children in that class who are still in danger," he added.

The detailed chronology is like this. Salvador Ramos, the perpetrator, entered Robb Elementary School in the school's Uvalde through a back door which he found open at 11.33 am local time. He started shooting from the 111 and 112 classrooms.

Actually two minutes later, three policemen came in through the same door as Ramos. Even at 12:03 WIB, there were 19 officers in the hallway.

Yet they were all silent!

Just at 12.50, the police broke into the classroom and killed Ramos.

At a press conference Friday afternoon, Texas Governor Greg Abbott was angry that he had a false initial report from police into the shooting.

"Investigators need to know what really happened with 100 percent accuracy and explain it to the public and most importantly to the victims who have been devastated," the governor said.

"The point is, why didn't they choose the best strategy to get in there to eliminate the killer and save the children."