The Texas Department of Public Safety is retracting prior statements that a teacher had pushed open a door used by the Uvalde shooter to enter Robb Elementary School before the massacre.
According to Ericka Miller, press secretary for the Texas Department of Public Safety, investigators have since found that the instructor shut the door but it did not lock. DPS confirmed that law enforcement is investigating why the door did not lock.
The explanation comes only days after Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw stated that the instructor left the door pushed open before the shooter approached the school.
“The teacher rushes to room 132 to get a phone, and that same teacher walks back to the exit door, and the door stays pushed open,” McCraw said during a news conference last Friday.
According to the San Antonio Express-News, the teacher’s lawyer “She observed the crash” and then “went back inside to fetch her phone to call the police.” She returned while on the phone with 911. The men at the funeral house said, he has a pistol! She hurried back inside when she saw him climb the fence and pull out a revolver.
The lawyer said, when she returned, she kicked the rock away. She recalls closing the door and calling 911 to report that he was firing. She expected the door to lock since it is usually meant to be locked.
