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>> none at that time. >> why? >> the on-scene commander at the time believed that it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. >> sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 911 saying, please send the police. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. >> we're well aware of that. >> why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? >> again, the on-scene commander considered it a barricaded subject and that there was time and there were no more children at risk. obviously, based upon the information we have, the...

Barricaded situation. this was an active shooter situation. and now, of course, the question about that resource officer, the director of dps was asked about that. take a listen to what he said. >> that officer was not on scene, not on campus, but had heard the 911 call, a man with a gun. drove immediately to the area. sped to what he thought was the man with a gun, to the back of the school, what turned out to be a teacher and not the suspect. in doing so, he drove right by the suspect who was hunkered down behind a vehicle where he began shooting at the school. >> reporter: and then moments ...

Dps today. he said something like, he asked the same question i just asked and then he said it was reviewed. it was reviewed, and a decision was made that we're not going in. so it sounds like they had that active information, but yet it's not clear to me. >> yes, and you've been on the story all day and you've been asking questions of the decision makers. tell us what you've learned? >> so first let me start with this. we're talking about the on-scene commander? did he, in fact, know that the 911 calls were coming in? that people were alive inside these classrooms? there was no on-going negot...

Gunshots. that's how the police described it. and during that time, what are the police doing? they're there. the decision, this troubling decision that the police chief made, the police chief of the school police on scene, not to breach the door, not to go inside. it's something that is not protocol. it's something that law enforcement does not train for. as the head of dps said, when there is a threat, an active shooter threat, you go inside. why this police chief thought that this was a barricaded situation and not an active shooter situation, we don't have the answer to that. but take a li...

And then the suspect is seen exiting the car. significant here is then we start getting reports, police do, that the first shots are fired towards the school, and that is when the resource officer arrives to the scene. remember, we had been told that the resource officer was here. well, yesterday and now today they say that was not the case. the resource officer should have been here. that resource officer was not there. and then we go into this timeline. some of this information we already know. the suspect entering the school, the three police officers entering the school, followed by anothe...