A lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN that police were reluctant to immediately engage with the gunman who spent an hour inside the elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., where he killed 19 children and two adults because “they could’ve been shot.”
Police Slow to Engage Because ‘They Could’ve Been Shot’
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