UVALDE, Texas – Months after failing to turn over all of the records tied to the response to the 2022 Robb Elementary massacre, the City of Uvalde has released additional videos.
Forty-eight videos were included in Tuesday’s release. Eleven are body-camera videos from the May 24, 2022 massacre.
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Some body cam videos reviewed by KSAT showed officers inside the hallways as officers breached the classrooms where the teenage gunman holed himself in, killing 19 students and two teachers.
Other videos showed officers sweeping hallways, directing parents outside the campus and questioning the delay in breaching the rooms.
- “What building is he in? In this one? There’s making entry through where?” one officer is heard asking in his body cam video. Someone on the radio could be heard asking officers to move their police units on the roadway to clear the roads. In the background of this video, someone is heard saying they’re going to breach the classroom. Gunshots are then heard in the background. “EMT! EMT! is heard in the background. “They should have f****** gone in quick bro,” the officer states.
- “How many f****** shots have gone off since he was cornered in?” an officer says in another video. “There were chingos before he was cornered in ... and when they tried to push through, he started firing off more rounds,” an officer responds. “And nobody went in? Pete did? And then? Where’s Pete?” the officer asks.
- In one body cam video just minutes after the gunman was killed, officers are heard asking about the number of casualties and plan for transporting students. The video shows an officer with blood on his right sleeve. Someone on the radio could be heard saying, “I need a member of your department at the new command post.”
- In one body cam video about 30 minutes after the gunman was killed, officers are seen standing outside the campus as a helicopter whizzes in the air. “Stay strong, you go this brother,” one officer is heard saying on his body cam while consoling another officer. He also asks “Where’s sarge man?”
The videos weren’t uncovered until after the City of Uvalde released a trove of records tied to the response to the mass shooting in early August. A judge ruled the city had to release records.
Shortly after the release of the original records, Uvalde police said an officer informed the department that some of his body camera footage from the shooting was missing.
Chief Homer Delgado said he ordered an audit of the department’s servers, which turned up “several additional videos” that should have been released.
In September, the department placed Uvalde Police Sgt. Donald Page on leave for the failure.
One day later, Page turned in a letter announcing his retirement from the department.
Records from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, or TCOLE, show that Page had been with UPD since 2006.
Page is among the hundreds of law enforcement officers who responded to the shooting.
UPD is the first agency to release records after media outlets sued the city, school district, county and the Department of Public Safety in 2022.
