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

State police initially mentioned a trainer had propped the door open shortly earlier than the shooter entered the varsity in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

They have now decided that the trainer, 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 Division of Public Security. But, Considine said, the door did not lock.

“We did confirm she closed the door. The door didn't lock. We know that a lot and now investigators are wanting into why it did not lock,” Considine stated.

Investigators confirmed the detail by way of extra video footage reviewed since last Friday’s news conference when authorities first mentioned 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 said the instructor initially propped the door open however ran back inside to get her telephone and name 911 when the gunman crashed his truck on campus.

“She came again out while on her cellphone, she heard somebody yell, ‘He has a gun!’, she saw him jump the fence and that he had a gun, so she ran again inside,” eradicating the rock when she did, Considine said.

San Antonio legal professional Don Flanary informed the San Antonio Specific-News that the Robb Elementary Faculty employee, whom he’s not naming, closed the door shut after realizing that a gunman was on the loose. She had initially propped it open to hold meals from a automobile to a classroom, the legal professional said.

“She kicked the rock away when she went back in. She remembers pulling the door closed while 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 teachers who had been killed in that classroom on Might 24.

“She thought the door would lock as a result of that door is all the time imagined to be locked,” Flanary said.

Flanary didn't immediately return telephone messages left at his workplace from The Related Press.

Investigators are also still trying to interview Uvalde Consolidated Impartial College District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who state police have stated was the commander of the school taking pictures scene while it happened.

Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Security, has said Arredondo treated the energetic scene as a hostage situation and as if youngsters were not at risk, while 19 cops waited in the school hallway outdoors the classroom the place the shooter was.

McCraw known as that the “incorrect resolution,” saying the focus of the investigation has shifted to Arredondo and the police response.

Other officers in the Uvalde city and faculties police departments proceed to sit down for interviews and supply statements, but Arredondo has not responded to DPS requests for 2 days, Considine stated.