Shooting on Uvalde: Armed police officers waited almost an hour before they confronted the shooter

The police armed with high -performance rifles and ballistic shields waited almost an hour before they confronted a mass shooter in a school in Uvalde, Texas, as new pictures show.

About 11 officials entered the Robb primary school just three minutes after the shooter-and gained guns and at least one ballistic sign within 20 minutes after the attack-but they were waiting for another 58 minutes in the hallway while children were slaughtered in their classrooms.

The recent revelations indicate that the officials had more than enough fireplace and protection to switch off the shooters long before they finally did it, and reinforce the fear and the questions about why the police did not act earlier to stop the attack on May 24th

A new, comprehensive timeline of the attack, which was compiled by the Texas Tribune based on documents from the law enforcement authorities, showed that almost a dozen civil servants entered the school at 11.35 a.m.

Within five minutes, Pete Arredondo, the chief of police at the Uvalde school district, called for reinforcement, "because we don't have enough firepower at the moment. It is all pistol and he has an AR-15," reported the newspaper.

shots were fired at 11.40 a.m. and 11.44 a.m. when children desperately called the emergency number 911, but the officials stayed outside.

A photo of a CCTV video received by Austin American Statesman shows police officers who are armed with at least two rifles and a ballistic sign at 11.52 a.m. in the hallway of the school.

You entered the classroom in which 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was locked up, only at 12.50 p.m.

he killed 19 children and two teachers before he was shot by the police.

Last week the San Antonio Express-News reported that video surveillance recordings from the school did not even show how civil servants tried to open the door that led to the classrooms in which the massacre took place.

delays in the reaction of the law enforcement authorities were the focus of the investigation of the massacre and its consequences at the federal, state and local level.

Steve McCraw, the director of the Texan Ministry for Public Security, said on May 27th that Arredondo had made "the wrong decision" when he decided not to storm the classroom for more than 70 minutes, although children who were caught in two classrooms desperately called for help.

Mr. McCraw said at the hearing of the Senate in Austin on Tuesday: "There is convincing evidence that the reaction of the law enforcement authorities to attack the Robb primary school was a miserable failure and contradicted everything we have learned in the past two decades since Columbine massacre."

Arredondo later said that he did not consider himself a person responsible and assumed that someone else has taken control of the reaction of the law enforcement authorities. He refused to further comment.

It is expected that a legislative committee that deals with the reaction of the law enforcement authorities will publish its preliminary results.