From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tevernici. This is the Daily.

For days after the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the explanation for how the police responded

kept shifting. Now, a clearer picture has emerged.

Today, my colleague, David Goodman, on why officers waited so long before storming the classrooms

where the gunman was, and the questions that raises about what happened to the people inside.

It's Tuesday, May 31st.

David, there have been a lot of questions about the way that the police responded to the

shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Tell us what we know at this point.

Well, getting to what we know now has been really quite a journey. When the shooting happened

on Tuesday, you know, one of the first things that we wanted to try and answer after confirming

that this horrific event had taken place and the number of killed and wounded was, when

did they finally end it? When did they finally kill the gunman? That fact was not something

that they brought out immediately. They weren't revealing that. That raised a lot of questions

for me that there was something sort of so basic that they weren't either willing or

able to share. On Friday, we finally got a chance to hear directly from the state police.

They've been conducting the inquiry into the law enforcement response to the shooting, and

they laid out their timeline in a press conference.

Good morning. Thank you for being here today. My name is Stephen McRaw. I'm the Director of

Texas Department of Public Safety. Tell me about this press conference.

So Stephen McRaw, who's the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, and this

is the agency that runs the state police and also the Texas Rangers, he calls reporters

to a press conference right by the elementary school. Our goal today is to provide the parents

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