Three Border Patrol agents got medals after Uvalde. But they were slowed by confusion, misinformation and inadequate equipment.
Bodycam footage shows law enforcement personnel in the hallway outside two interconnected classrooms where a teenage gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24, 2022. In all, nearly 400 officers responded to the shooting. The standoff ended when members of a Border Patrol tactical unit stormed the classrooms and killed the gunman.
"I turned around to witness a mass of children entangled with one another, lying motionless,” Merrell’s statement said. “The children were covered in blood and appeared to be unconscious or dead; many with their eyes still open."Merrell, Becker and Paul Guerrero, acting commander of the BORTAC team on the day of the massacre, were decorated for valor in March. All three have been with the agency for more than 10 years.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, is still reviewing its agents' response to the shooting through its Office of Professional Responsibility. On May 16, his 18th birthday, he bought a Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 rifle and 1,740 hollow-point bullets from an online seller. Two days later, he purchased a Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifle and more ammunition, again online. He paid a total of $3,135 for the rifles.on May 24, one of the last days of school before summer break. He wore black pants and a black long-sleeved shirt.. He’d stolen the truck after shooting her in the face at her home on Diaz Street several blocks from the school.
At 11:36, three officers — a school police officer and two from the Uvalde Police Department — arrived at the school. As two of the officers approached Rooms 111 and 122 with pistols drawn, Ramos fired through the classroom wall into the hallway, grazing both officers. Bodycam footage shows law enforcement personnel in the hallway outside two interconnected classrooms where a teenage gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24, 2022. In all, nearly 400 officers responded to the shooting. The standoff ended when members of a Border Patrol tactical unit stormed the classrooms and killed the gunman.Paul Guerrero entered this scene of confusion and irresolution at 12:12 p.m.
"Other intel from officers at the scene stated that he had possibly shot himself when officers tried to make entry," Guerrero said.Any mass shooting is chaotic, and the information that police pass among themselves is fragmentary and often inaccurate.
The House committee report said it was apparent from bodycam video that Guerrero assumed tactical command of the scene shortly before 12:30 p.m. "I grew severely concerned about removing the kids from the classroom and getting them medical treatment as soon as possible," he said in his statement.
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