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An exterior door at Robb Elementary School did not lock when it was closed by a instructor shortly earlier than a gunman used it to get inside and kill 19 students and two academics, leaving investigators looking to determine why, state police said Tuesday.

State police initially mentioned a teacher had propped the door open shortly earlier than the shooter entered the school in Uvalde, Texas, on Could 24.

They have now decided that the trainer, who has not been recognized, propped the door open with a rock, but then removed the rock and closed the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus, mentioned Travis Considine, chief communications officer for the Texas Department of Public Security. However, Considine stated, the door did not lock.

“We did confirm she closed the door. The door did not lock. We all know that much 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 final Friday’s information convention when authorities first stated that the door had been left propped open. Authorities didn't state at that time what had been used to prop open the door.

Considine stated the instructor initially propped the door open but ran again inside to get her phone and name 911 when the gunman crashed his truck on campus.

“She got here again out whereas on her telephone, she heard somebody yell, ‘He has a gun!’, she noticed him soar the fence and that he had a gun, so she ran back inside,” removing the rock when she did, Considine said.

San Antonio attorney Don Flanary told the San Antonio Categorical-News that the Robb Elementary School worker, whom he’s not naming, closed the door shut after realizing that a gunman was on the free. She had initially propped it open to carry meals from a car to a classroom, the lawyer stated.

“She kicked the rock away when she went back in. She remembers pulling the door closed while telling 911 that he was capturing,” Flanary advised the newspaper.

Funerals are planned for the following two-and-a-half weeks for the 19 kids and two lecturers who have been killed in that classroom on Might 24.

“She thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked,” Flanary said.

Flanary didn't immediately return telephone messages left at his office from The Associated Press.

Investigators are also still attempting to interview Uvalde Consolidated Impartial School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who state police have said was the commander of the varsity capturing scene while it happened.

Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Division of Public Safety, has said Arredondo handled the active scene as a hostage scenario and as if kids were no longer in danger, whereas 19 law enforcement officials waited in the faculty hallway outside the classroom the place the shooter was.

McCraw known as that the “flawed choice,” saying the main target of the investigation has shifted to Arredondo and the police response.

Other officers within the Uvalde metropolis and faculties police departments proceed to sit for interviews and provide statements, however Arredondo has not responded to DPS requests for two days, Considine said.