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Report on Uvalde school shooting describes 'egregiously poor decision-making'

Vincent Salazar, the grandfather of Layla Salazar, one of the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, holds a report released by the Texas House of Representatives investigative committee in Uvalde, Texas on July 17, 2022. © Eric Gay, AP

Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed, according to a damning investigative report released Sunday.

The nearly 80-page report was the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas town for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School.

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