AUSTIN, Texas, USA. —
Videos of the 2022 Uvalde, Texas, school shooting that police initially did not make public show police rushing to treat victims, parents running near the building, and dozens of police officers. standing in front of Robb Elementary School.
Police have said the videos were discovered days after a large collection of audio and video recordings were made public in August. Together, the images have shown the faltering police response in the small South Texas city, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside a fourth-grade classroom, in one of the worst school shootings in the nation. history of the United States.
The new recordings made public on Tuesday include sequences similar to those already released. In a chaotic scene, officers can be seen performing chest compressions on a victim outside and others screaming for help.
An Uvalde agent was suspended with pay and later resigned after the discovery of the new videos in August. Sergeant Donald Page said his body camera footage had disappeared after initial release, prompting officers to turn over the unreleased video to the district attorney general’s office. Shortly after, the department announced an internal investigation, but it remains unclear how the new recording was discovered.
City officials’ release of the material over the summer followed a lengthy legal fight with The Associated Press and other news companies.
The delayed response by police forces to the May 24, 2022 shooting has been widely condemned and considered a massive failure. Nearly 400 officers waited more than 70 minutes before confronting the gunman in a classroom filled with dead and wounded teachers and children in this South Texas city of about 15,000 people, located 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of San Antonio.
