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The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas elementary school - even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside - has been placed with the school district's homegrown police chief.
The police commander at the scene of the Uvalde elementary school massacre decided to wait for help before confronting the gunman because he believed the situation had shifted from an active shooter to a barricaded hostage situation, a decision that a Texas official condemned as "wrong" on Friday.