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A report into the Uvalde school shooting in Texas in 2022 has found “cascading failures” on the afternoon of the killings and beyond, including a “haphazard” initial response. Two teachers and 19 children at Robb Elementary school were killed in one of the worst such shootings in US history. According to the US Department of Justice report, the most significant mistake was that the first officers on the scene treated the 18-year-old killer as someone who had barricaded himself in, not as an active assassin. It took the police over an hour to confront and kill the gunman. Jazmin Cazares lost her sister, Jackie, in the Uvalde school shootings. She told Newsday: “We’ve known there have been failures since the very beginning but what we appreciate about this report is that it’s very, very detailed. It doesn’t just show the failures of the police officers. It also talks about the failures by school staff, by the medical professionals and…our government agencies. It’s just a failure on the whole spectrum. I’m hoping that this report can lead to criminal prosecutions.” (Picture: Shows Jackie Cazares, one of the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Credit: Cazares family via Reuters.)