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Daily Mirror
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Alice Peacock

Texas school shooting: Police made 'wrong decision' not to storm classroom sooner

Police who waited at least 40 minutes for backup before entering the classroom where a gunman killed 19 children made the “wrong decision”, a law enforcement official has said.

Salvador Ramos, 18, slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday morning.

The bloody massacre lasted about 90 minutes before he was eventually shot dead by police.

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