Multiple security failures contributed to Uvalde school mass shooting fatalities

Automatic locking doors and law enforcement radios — things that were supposed to protect children from mass shootings — failed during the Uvalde school massacre, a top Texas official testified Tuesday. 

In testimony before the state Legislature, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw outlined several school security failures that may have contributed to the tragic outcome at Robb Elementary last month, when a gunman opened fire and killed 19 students and two teachers. 

While he described the police response to the shooting as an “abject failure,” McCraw said...