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shooter used to enter the school was actually not propped open as initially reported, but closed by a teacher once she realized there was a gunman on campus. investigators trying to figure out why that door failed to lock. shimon prokupecz, you spoke briefly this morning with chief aradondo, someone everyone has been wanting to hear from. what happened? >> reporter: yeah, certainly, we've been trying to make contact with him for the last several days. we haven't heard from him since the day of the shooting. we've been at his house. finally this morning, our producer, erin cooper, spo...

commenting publicly, exclusively to cnn. he was called out as the commander responsible for the delayed response at robb elementary last tuesday. the tactical teams took more than 45 minutes to enter the classroom where a gunman had locked himself in that room with children he had just shot and students who were calling 911 pleading for help. >> so the texas department of public safety says arredondo has not responded to its request for a follow-up interview with the texas rangers who were investigating this shooting. but just last night away from public view, from any media coverage...

ucisd campuses. >> we have been speaking to resident after resident here. a woman whose niece was killed, a local store employee whose cousin was killed, a fast food employee whose niece was killed. another person who is not too far from here, grew up going to robb elementary and then decades later, hears gunshots before calling 911. all of them were too heartbroken to go on camera, being that close to the story, but one thing we heard from every single one of them is that this goes beyond this week. this is something that is going to be with them for the rest of their lives. ♪ >> ...

described frantic people running for cover, amid the gunfire. the shooter was a young man, and one of the people that he tragically shot was a 39 year old woman, she died as a result of those injuries, and that is what happened just this past sunday in taft, oklahoma, where a mass shooter started firing during a memorial day festival. seven people were injured, one woman lost her life. in chattanooga tennessee, it was six people. six people were shot in another mass shooting that took place on saturday. all of them were children. one of them was just 13 years old. now, it was reporte...

that was really a great report on. it thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you a man. >> we have some breaking news from you all day right now. this is stunning. absolutely stunning news. yesterday afternoon, on our special memorial day coverage, i was echoing from six to 8 pm. and we reported to you then, that peter i would hondo, who was the commanding officer in the school, for those 78 minutes for when the police was doing nothing. he is the chief of police of the school district of you've all day, that very small by person police force that he commands. he was also three weeks ago,...