There was no plan for triage. Children with bullet wounds were put on school buses without medical attention, while victims who had already passed away were taken to the hospital in ambulances. One teacher with a bullet wound was treated on a sidewalk, where she died. Family members waited for hours without updates — and in some cases were given inaccurate information that their loved ones were alive when, in fact, they were dead.
These were just some of the “cascading failures” of first responders at the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, detailed by U.S. Department of Justice officials on Thursday alongside a new report.
