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An exterior door at Robb Elementary School did not lock when it was closed by a trainer shortly earlier than a gunman used it to get inside and kill 19 college students and two teachers, leaving investigators looking out to determine why, state police mentioned Tuesday.

State police initially mentioned a instructor had propped the door open shortly before the shooter entered the college in Uvalde, Texas, on Could 24.

They've now determined that the teacher, who has not been recognized, propped the door open with a rock, however then eliminated the rock and closed the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus, stated Travis Considine, chief communications officer for the Texas Department of Public Safety. But, Considine said, the door did not lock.

“We did verify she closed the door. The door did not lock. We know that a lot and now investigators are wanting into why it did not lock,” Considine said.

Investigators confirmed the element via additional video footage reviewed since final Friday’s news conference when authorities first stated that the door had been left propped open. Authorities did not state at the moment what had been used to prop open the door.

Considine mentioned the instructor initially propped the door open however ran again inside to get her telephone and call 911 when the gunman crashed his truck on campus.

“She got here again out whereas on her telephone, she heard someone yell, ‘He has a gun!’, she noticed him soar the fence and that he had a gun, so she ran again inside,” removing the rock when she did, Considine said.

San Antonio lawyer Don Flanary instructed the San Antonio Express-News that the Robb Elementary College worker, whom he’s not naming, closed the door shut after realizing that a gunman was on the free. She had initially propped it open to carry meals from a car to a classroom, the attorney stated.

“She kicked the rock away when she went again in. She remembers pulling the door closed whereas telling 911 that he was shooting,” Flanary advised the newspaper.

Funerals are planned for the following two-and-a-half weeks for the 19 kids and two academics who were killed in that classroom on Might 24.

“She thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked,” Flanary stated.

Flanary didn't instantly return phone messages left at his office from The Related Press.

Investigators are also still attempting to interview Uvalde Consolidated Independent Faculty District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who state police have said was the commander of the varsity shooting scene whereas it happened.

Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Security, has mentioned Arredondo handled the energetic scene as a hostage situation and as if children had been no longer at risk, while 19 law enforcement officials waited within the school hallway exterior the classroom where the shooter was.

McCraw called that the “fallacious determination,” saying the focus of the investigation has shifted to Arredondo and the police response.

Other officers in the Uvalde city and colleges police departments continue to take a seat for interviews and supply statements, but Arredondo has not responded to DPS requests for 2 days, Considine stated.