The police waited for more than an hour under the classroom door where the shooting took place: the details of the massacre at a Texas school are alarming - ForumDaily
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Police waited for more than an hour under the door of the class where the shooting took place: the details of the massacre at a Texas school are alarming

A broken Texas community is trying to bounce back from shooting that claimed the lives of 19 young children and two teachers. Edition CNN recreated the chronology of the events of that day.

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On May 27, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Stephen McCraw laid out the most detailed information received by the public to date about the horror that unfolded at Robb Elementary School on May 24, and tried to provide some answers to how the police and authorities reacted to what happened.

Among the details that are now known: a school officer drove right past the shooter - 18-year-old Salvador Ramos - while Ramos fired at the school; as many as 19 officers were at the school more than 45 minutes before the suspect was killed; the school district police chief decided not to break into the classroom where the shooter was; a girl from a nearby barricaded classroom called 911 several times asking for the police while the officers were outside.

The CNN edition created a chronology of events based on information provided by McCraw, as well as messages on social networks and other sources.

In previous months

McCraw said that September 2021 years the shooter asked his sister to help him buy a gun, and she "categorically refused."

The shooter was in a group chat on Instagram, and 28 February 2022 year it discussed that the suspect could become a "school shooter".

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As McCraw said, March 1 the shooter had an Instagram chat with several people in which he discussed buying guns. Two days later, another group chat took place in which someone said that "there are rumors on the street" that the suspect is buying guns. The shooter replied, "I just bought something."

March 14 the shooter wrote on Instagram: "10 more days." Another user responded, "Are you going to shoot up the school or something?" The shooter replied: “No, stop asking stupid questions, you will see everything,” McCraw replied.

17 and 20 may the shooter legally purchased two AR-type rifles from a local federal firearms license holder, Texas state senator John Whitmire said.

He purchased and 375 rounds 18 May.

State Senator Roland Gutierrez said the purchases were made for the suspect's 18th birthday.

He shot his grandmother and left home

Before going to school and committing the massacre, the shooter, according to screenshots and interviews with the girl, sent her a series of frightening text messages. He met her on the Internet.

The teenage girl, who lives in Germany, said she started chatting with the shooter on the app in early May. According to her, the shooter told her that 23 May received a package of ammunition.

The girl said that 24 May In the morning, Ramos called her and told her that he loved her.

He complained about his grandmother talking to AT&T about "my phone."

"It's annoying," he wrote.

Six minutes later, at 11:21 a.m., he added, “I just shot Grandma in the head.”

And a few seconds later, a new message: "I'm going to shoot at an elementary school right now."

The suspect started shooting near the school

Tuesday, 24 May, at 11:27 the teacher opened the outside door of Robb's elementary school, where the shooter is believed to have entered.

11:28: The shooter's car crashes into a ditch near the school. According to McCraw, the teacher runs into the room to pick up the phone and returns to the door, which remains open. The suspect jumps off the passenger side of the truck with a rifle and a bag later revealed to be ammunition, DPS spokesman Victor Escalon said.

Meanwhile, two witnesses who were at the funeral home across the street from the school hear a crash and go to see what happened. According to McCraw, the suspect starts shooting at them. Both began to run away.

11: 30: the teacher reappears and, in a panic, "apparently" calls 911. The US Marshals Service reported that at 11:30 a.m. she received a call for help from police officer Uwalde.

11: 31: the suspect gets to the last row of cars in the school parking lot and starts shooting at the school. Patrol cars drive to the funeral home.

According to McCraw, there was no school employee who confronted the suspect outside the school, officials previously said. McCraw said the school officer was not at the scene but heard the XNUMX call about a man with a gun, drove into the area and raced to the back of the school to a man he thought was a suspect, who turned out to be a teacher.

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“At the same time, the school officer drove past the suspect, who hid behind the car and started shooting at the school,” McCraw said. He clarified that the suspect fired several shots.

The first officers entered the school more than an hour before the shooter was killed.

11: 33: the shooter enters the school and starts shooting at a classroom that is connected to another classroom. McCraw says he fired "at least" 100 rounds.

11: 35: three Uvalde police officers enter the same door as the suspect. According to McCraw, they are followed by three more police officers and the county sheriff - a total of seven police officers are at the scene of the shooting.

The DPS director said that the first three officers went straight to the classroom door, which was closed, and two were injured.

11: 37: in the following minutes, another 16 shots were fired.

11: 42: a source close to the teacher receives a message that there is an active shooter on campus.

11: 43: Robb Elementary School announces on Facebook that the area cannot be visited "because of the gunshots"; "students and staff in the building are safe."

Approximately 11:44: officers call for additional resources, equipment, body armor, negotiators - evacuate students and teachers.

11: 51: new officers arrive on the scene.

12: 03: officers continue to stand in the hallway of the school.

“There were 19 officers in that corridor at the time,” McCraw said.

12: 03: a girl from the next class calls 911, calls herself and whispers what class she is in. The call lasted a minute and 23 seconds. She calls back in a few minutes and says that several people have died.

12: 10: The first team of Sheriff's Office marshals arrive on the scene to assist "federal, state and local law enforcement who are already on the scene," the Marshals Service said in a statement.

12: 13: the girl calls 911 again.

12: 15: members of the tactical unit of the border guard BORTAC arrive on the scene.

When the border guards began to arrive, the officer in charge of the situation had already determined that the classroom was barricaded. After that, the group waited another 40 minutes before bursting into the classroom.

McCraw said the person who made the decision was the school district's police chief and called it "the wrong decision."

12: 17: Robb Elementary School reports on Facebook that there is an active shooter at the school, and police have arrived on the scene.

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12: 16: the girl calls 911 again and informs dispatchers that 8-9 schoolchildren are still alive.

12: 19: another person calls 911 from one of the two classes and hangs up.

12: 21: the suspect shoots again. According to McCraw, he is believed to have been at the door.

12: 21: three shots are heard after another XNUMX call.

12: 36: the girl calls 911 again, is told to be very quiet, and informs dispatchers, "He shot at the door." The call lasted 21 seconds.

12: 43: the girl asks the dispatchers to "send the police".

12: 47: she again asks to send the police. A minute earlier, the student had said she could hear the officers at the door.

12: 50: law enforcers break open the locked classroom door using the janitor's keys. They shoot and kill the suspect.

12: 51: the girl calls XNUMX again, loud noises are heard and the officers can be heard taking the children out of the room. The child goes outside and the call is cut off.

According to McCraw, the suspect purchased and possessed a total of 1657 rounds of ammunition, 315 of which were with him at school. 142 spent shell casings were found.

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