![]() ![]() Throughout the past year, local news outlets, such as the Texas Tribune, San Antonio Express-News, and Austin American-Statesman have stayed on the story, as well as major networks like CNN and ABC, the latter of which kept a team in Uvalde for a year. We’re about to do these stories, but we want to tell you first,” Prokupecz said. “Throughout this last year doing this story, it just has seemed that it was me and my team and CNN going to these families and saying: Here’s the information we’ve uncovered. Given the lack of transparency, media outlets took on an outsized role, trying to get answers for the community and holding law enforcement accountable over their botched response. Texas officials tried from the start to contain the disastrous revelations, seemingly releasing what little information they did when conflicting timelines or leaks left them no other choice. We know this, and many other things about what went wrong in Uvalde, thanks to the unrelenting work of journalists like Prokupecz. We now know that members of law enforcement- 376 total, from multiple agencies, arrived at the scene of the shooting-could have potentially stopped the shooter within three minutes and were equipped to do so instead, amid a breakdown in communications and leadership, and despite 911 calls from children inside of the classroom, they waited 77 minutes to act. The tragedy is not only in the lives lost but those that could have been saved had police acted sooner. ![]() It’s been a year since a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in one of the deadliest school shootings in US history. “The murals of all of the kids, different kids died that day, are just everywhere.” A new normal, where “you can’t go a block without seeing a kid’s face” or “a cross” or “something that reminds you of what happened.” The school is now closed but remains standing, as do the memorials erected for the victims. I could start to feel the sadness,” the CNN correspondent said. ![]() You’re on that long road into Uvalde and…I could start to feel it. “As we’re driving in, I could tell, you know. On a recent visit to Uvalde, Shimon Prokupecz could feel the Texas community before he’d even fully arrived. ![]()
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