“People are going to ask why we’re taking so long,” a law enforcement official on the scene of the shooting could be heard saying, according to the Times, which cited a transcript of law enforcement body camera footage.
“We’re trying to preserve the rest of the life,” the transcript reads, according to the Times.
The Times reported that officers had grown impatient and were voicing their concerns.
“If there’s kids in there, we need to go in there,” one officer could be heard saying, according to the Times, which cited investigative documents.
“Whoever is in charge will determine that,” another officer responded, according to the Times.
By roughly 11:44 a.m., officers on the scene were calling for additional resources, equipment, body armor and negotiators and evacuating students and teachers, officials previously said.
By 12:03 p.m., there were “as many as 19 officers” gathered in the hallway of the school, while the gunman was inside the adjoining classrooms where the massacre took place.
At the same time, a student from inside one of the adjoining classrooms called 911 identifying herself and the classroom she was in, officials said. She called again at 12:13 p.m. and then again several minutes later, telling dispatchers there were eight to nine students still alive, according to authorities.
Law enforcement breached the classroom door at 12:50 p.m., using keys from a janitor, and shot and killed the suspect.
“From the benefit of hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision,” McCraw said at the time about the supervisor’s call not to confront the shooter. “It was the wrong decision. Period. There’s no excuse for that.”
CNN has reached out to DPS and Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee’s office for comment.
A source close to the committee said that report is expected to focus on the facts only and include a chronological sequence of events, a timeline and details on the shooter. The committee is quasi-judicial and has subpoena power, and all witness testimony will be under oath, the source said.
In a Thursday statement in response to the Times article, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s press secretary Renae Eze said, “The investigations being conducted by the Texas Rangers and the FBI are ongoing, and we look forward to the full results being shared with the victims’ families and the public, who deserve the full truth of what happened that tragic day.”
CNN’s Christina Maxouris and Rosa Flores contributed to this report.