<div class="gjw_content"><div><div class="Article-paragraph"><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>UVALDE, Texas (NEWSnet/AP)</strong> — U.S. Department of Justice is planning to release findings of an investigation into police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers were killed.</span></p></div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"> </div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Uvalde Consolidated School District Superintendent Ashley Chohlis notified the community of the report at a school board meeting.</span></p></div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"> </div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Justice Department officials previously said the review would focus on law enforcement response, prompted by contradictory information from authorities at the time.</span></p></div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"> </div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"><p class="p1"><span class="s1">DOJ has said the investigation will “provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and response that day” and identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for active shooter events.</span></p></div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"> </div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"><p class="p1"><span class="s1">In 2022, a panel of state lawmakers found that nearly 400 officers responded to the shooting when a gunman stormed the school, but they waited for more than an hour to confront the attacker.</span></p></div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"> </div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The nearly 80-page report found that “egregiously poor decision-making” led to hundreds of heavily armed officers waiting in the hallway as the gunman fired into two fourth-grade classrooms.</span></p></div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"> </div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"><p class="p1"><span class="s1">At least five officers have lost their jobs. </span></p></div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"> </div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"><p class="p2"><span class="s2"><strong>Follow NEWSnet on </strong><span class="s3"><strong>Facebook</strong></span><strong> and </strong><span class="s3"><strong>X platform</strong></span><strong> to get our headlines in your social feeds</strong>.</span></p></div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"> </div></div> <div><div class="Article-paragraph"><p class="p4"><span class="s1"><em>Copyright 2024 NEWSnet and The Associated Press. All rights reserved.</em></span></p></div></div></div>
