Robb Elementary School didn't have interior-locking doors, NBC report says
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UVALDE, Texas (KXAN/NBC News) — Robb Elementary School in Uvalde is like many other Texas schools in that it didn't have doors that lock from the inside, according to an NBC News report.
Built in the 1960s, the school's classroom doors could only be locked from the outside, a Robb Elementary teacher told NBC News under the condition of anonymity. According to a 2018 survey commissioned by Gov. Greg Abbott, 36% of schools in Texas didn't have interior-locking doors "in the majority of their classrooms."
In a survey of schools nationally in 2020, 25% of schools reported they didn't have those types of door locks.
The teacher that spoke with NBC News said she had to "move toward gunfire," and open her classroom door and step into the hall to lock it from the outside.
The teacher said the gunman went into a classroom across the hall, just steps away from where she was when she locked the door to her classroom, and started shooting.