Federal customs agents DEFIED local Texas police chief to kill school shooter: SWAT team overruled dithering cops and burst into class to shoot gunman dead when he jumped out of closet after killing 19 children
Pete Arredondo, chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, had stopped at least 19 officers from breaking into the school
Steven McCraw, director of Texas Department of Public Safety, said Arredondo mistakenly believed the gunman was contained and no longer a threat
Two federal sources told NBC that teams of border patrol agents from their tactical division were on the scene by 12:00-12:15pm, but told to wait
They stood around for 30 minutes before taking matters into their own hands and deciding to storm the school
Arredondo is yet to appear at any press briefings but officials are facing increasingly angry questions about their handling of the attack
Members of an elite tactical border patrol unit arrived at Robb Elementary School at around midday, but were told by the chief of the school district police to not enter the school.
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