Surveillance video from Uvalde shooting published

The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety said he was “deeply disappointed” that surveillance video showing parts of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting were published by an Austin newspaper Tuesday, ahead of the planned public release this weekend.

“As I stated during my testimony before the Senate Special Committee to Protect All Texans, this video provides horrifying evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary on May 24 was an abject failure,” McCraw said. “In law enforcement, when one officer fails, we all fail.”

A report by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, or ALERRT, at Texas State University put out at the beginning of July cited a series of deadly missed opportunities and mistakes in the response to a shooting at Robb Elementary school, including two unlocked doors and a lack of effective command.

The report says an Uvalde police officer with a rifle spotted the gunman outside the school, but a supervisor either did not hear him or responded too late when asked for permission to fire. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin criticized that account, saying no officer had an opportunity to take a shot at the gunman.

McLaughlin said an officer saw someone outside "but was unsure of who he saw and observed children in the area as well."

"Ultimately, it was a coach with children on the playground, not the shooter," the mayor said.

Pete Blair, executive director of ALERRT, defended the report in a statement, saying the source for each item in its timeline is clearly shown in the document. He said the information about the officer who possibly had a shot at the gunman was based on the officer's statements to DPS.

Citing the report, Blair added, "Ultimately, the decision to use deadly force always lies with the officer who will use the force. If the officer was not confident that he could both hit his target and of his backdrop if he missed, he should not have fired."

Some context: The gunman fatally shot 19 young students and two teachers inside a classroom before authorities eventually breached the door more than an hour later.

The pain surrounding the tragedy has been compounded by finger-pointing and blame-shifting from the various agencies investigating the school shooting — one of the deadliest in US history — and its aftermath.

The Austin American-Statesman newspaper published a lengthy second edited video Tuesday of hallway surveillance video from inside Robb Elementary School, as gunman Salvador Ramos entered and opened fire, eventually killing 21 people.

The edited presentation lasts nearly an hour-and-a-half and includes video from the parking lot as Ramos crashes a truck and first opens fire. It also shows some video from police body cameras. It was published on the Austin American-Statesman’s YouTube channel.

None of the victims is seen in the video. The newspaper blurred the face of a child who was in the hallway and runs away when Ramos first begins to open fire. The paper says it also edited out sounds of children screaming.

Earlier today, the Austin American-Statesman released just under five minutes of what it reported is more than 77 minutes of video they obtained.

Rep. Joe Moody, the Speaker Pro Tempore of the Texas House, called the newly published video of the Uvalde school shooting “a piecemeal release of information.”

The Austin American-Statesman released just under five minutes of what it reported is more than 77 minutes of video they obtained.

The Texas House committee investigating the shooting had already announced it would publicly release the full video on Sunday after showing it to victims’ family members. A source close to the committee tells CNN that plan has not changed.

Following the release of the leaked surveillance video recorded inside Robb Elementary during the May 24 attack, US Rep.Tony Gonzales, who represents Uvalde, called it a "very difficult video to watch."

Here's his full tweet

Texas House Rep. Dustin Burrows, the chair of the House committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting, tweeted he’s “glad that a small portion” of the video was leaked on Tuesday, but disappointed that victim's families did not get to see if beforehand. 

The Austin American-Statesman released just under five minutes of what it reported is more than 77 minutes of video they obtained.

Berlina Irene Arreola, the grandmother of Uvalde school shooting victim Amerie Jo Garza,

told CNN her family has "mixed emotions" about whether they want to see the hallway surveillance video.

"Seeing that, I think is just going to make everybody else more angry, knowing that they were just standing there, basically doing nothing for that long period of time. They may say they were waiting or they were getting prepared. Seventy-seven minutes to get prepared is way too long," she said.

Amerie Jo's stepfather, Angel Garza, told CNN he feels like he knows more about the timeline of events for the Highland Park parade shooting last week than about the shooting in Uvalde in May.

"And that's wrong, that is so wrong," Garza said. "We've had multiple people tell us that they've never seen anything like this — agencies arguing, fighting, pointing the finger at each other. Nobody wants to admit that they were wrong, and our daughter isn't here anymore. We deserve to know what happened."

Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez tweeted about the early publication of the Uvalde school shooting video, calling it “appalling.”

The Austin American-Statesman released just under five minutes of what it reported is more than 77 minutes of video they obtained.

The Texas House committee investigating the shooting had already announced it would publicly release the full video on Sunday after showing it to victims’ family members. A source close to the committee tells CNN that plan has not changed.

Newly published surveillance video recorded inside Robb Elementary in Uvlade, Texas, during the May 24 attack, shows officers approaching the classroom where Salvador Ramos killed 21 people, but then retreating down the hallway and taking cover the moment gunfire is heard.

The video was obtained by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper and published Tuesday.

The edited video first shows teachers screaming as the gunman crosses the parking lot of Robb Elementary School after crashing a truck just outside the property. Once Ramos is inside the building, hallway surveillance cameras show him walking down the hallway uncontested with a long rifle. Gunfire is heard as the gunman enters a classroom, and a child on the other end of the hallway is seen running.

The newspaper says it removed the sound of children’s screams from the video.

The first shots that appeared to be directed at responding officers are heard at 11:37 a.m. local time, sending the officers immediately running down to the other end of the hallway in retreat. Multiple officers are seen with their guns drawn in the hallway, but are not seen approaching the classroom again until 12:21 p.m., after four more rounds are heard from the gunman. The officers do not directly confront the gunman again until 12:50 p.m., killing Ramos.

The Austin American-Statesman released just under five minutes of what it reported is more than 77 minutes of video they obtained.

The Texas House committee investigating the shooting had already announced it would publicly release the full video on Sunday after showing it to victims’ family members. A source close to the committee tells CNN that plan has not changed.