The U.S. Department of Justice has confirmed that it will release a report on Thursday about the law enforcement actions taken during the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Uvalde Consolidated School District Superintendent Ashley Chohlis announced the report’s imminent release earlier this week during a regular school board meeting, adding that the district would provide communication teams and counselors for those who wished to discuss the review, as reported by the Independent.
The “Critical Incident Review” will evaluate the actions taken by law enforcement on the day of the shooting, such as training, response time, deployment of resources, and the care provided to the victims and their families, according to ABC News.
This review is also expected to detail many of the lessons learned by law enforcement during the incident, per the Independent.
A previous investigation found that officers waited 77 minutes before entering the school and fatally shooting the gunman, who killed 19 students and two teachers while leaving another 17 students injured, as The Dallas Express reported.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said last year in a statement about the next steps after the shooting that “Nothing can undo the pain that has been inflicted on the loved ones of the victims, the survivors, and the entire community of Uvalde.”
“But the Justice Department can and will use its expertise and independence to assess what happened and to provide guidance moving forward.”
An investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety has also been conducted to evaluate whether public safety failures resulted in deaths during the shooting, though this report has yet to be released, per ABC News.
However, an investigation by a Texas House of Representatives special committee found that 376 responding law enforcement officers were at fault for what occurred, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
Multiple officials from Uvalde have been terminated since the incident, including former Uvalde CISD police chief Pete Arredondo.
