Damning report and new footage shows chaos of Uvalde school shooting response

Families of shooting victims listen to the investigative committee release its report (Eric Gay/AP)

A damning report and hours of body camera footage further laid bare the chaotic response to a mass shooting at a Texas primary school, where hundreds of law enforcement officers massed but then waited to confront a gunman even after a child trapped with the shooter called 911.

The findings of an investigative committee released on Sunday were the first to criticise both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in Uvalde, for the inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside two adjoining fourth-grade classrooms at Robb Elementary School, killing 19 students and two teachers.