Texas Department of Public Safety Provides Devastating Timeline of Uvalde School Massacre – Opinion

Texas Director of Public Safety Steven McCraw led an emotional press conference Friday morning in Uvalde, Texas, to provide a timeline of Tuesday’s massacre at Robb Elementary School based upon video and 911 evidence. McCraw also detailed the number of magazines and live and spent rounds collected at the various crime scenes from both the shooter and law enforcement, and clarified previous information reported about the killer’s social media postings.

The most devastating information McCraw shared was that officers didn’t enter the classroom upon arrival — a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes elapsed from the time the first Uvalde PD officers arrived until the shooter was killed — because the on-scene commander “believed that it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject,” and during that time numerous 911 calls were made from inside the adjoining classrooms where the carnage was ongoing.

Texas Official: The “on-scene commander” incorrectly believed that “there weren’t more children at danger.”

“Obviously, based upon the information we have, there were children in that classroom that were at risk…” pic.twitter.com/k07MUQaK8T

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 27, 2022

The timeline is shown in video and 911 evidence.

• 11:27 AM – Exterior door where shooter entered was propped open by a teacher.
• 11:28 AM – Shooter’s vehicle crashes into a ditch.
• 11:28 AM – teacher runs to room 132 to retrieve her phone and door remains propped open
• 11:30 AM – Teacher calls 911 to report the crash and a man with a gun.
• 11.31. The suspect gets to the end of the parking lot in front of the school.
• 11:31 AM – Shooter approaches school, shooting  at the classroom windows as he approaches.
• 11:31 AM – Patrol vehicles arrive at funeral home.
• 11:32 AM – Multiple shots fired at the school
• 11:33 AM – Shooter enters the school, begins firing into room 111 or 112; at least 100 rounds fired
• 11:35 AM – Three Uvalde PD officers enter school through same door shooter entered, quickly followed by three more Uvalde PD and one sheriff’s deputy.
• 11:35
• 11:37 AM – Shooter fires 16 rounds.
• 11:51 AM – Police sergeant arrived.
• 12:03 PM – Additional officers arrive; “There were as many as 19 officers at that time in that hallway.”
• 12:03 PM – 911 call from room 112 lasting 1 minute, 23 seconds
• 12:10 PM – 911 call from room 112, advised multiple are dead
• 12:13 PM – 911 call from room 112
• 12:16 PM – 911 call from room 111, caller reporting there are eight to nine students alive
• 12:15 PM – Members of BORTAC arrived, along with shields.
• 12:19 PM – 911 call from room 111, caller hung up when another student told them to
• 12:21 PM – Shooter fired again, “It was believed to be at the door.”
• 12:21 PM – 911 call from room 111
• 12:21 PM – Law enforcement moved down the hallway.
• 12:26 PM – 911 call from student lasting 26 seconds
• 12:26 PM – 911 call from the same student, reports that the killer shot the door. Student was asked to keep the line open and to be extremely quiet.
• 12:43 PM –
• 12:46 PM – 911 caller says she can hear police next door.
• 12:47 PM – asked 911 to “please send the police now”
• 12:50 PM – Officers breached the locked classroom door using keys provided by the janitor.

While giving the timeline, McCraw said that when the three Uvalde police officers went to the classroom door, two of them received “grazing” wounds before they retreated. The seven officers were there, and McCraw stated that they knew there was no way the classroom could be evacuated in such a brief time. There is no reason why officers couldn’t get into the classroom through a window, or even knocking at the door.

He explained to me that the ISD officers were not present on campus during the incident. After hearing the 911 call and seeing a man holding a gun close to school, he raced to the school to see the teacher with the gun. “In doing so, he drove right by the suspect, who was hunkered down behind a vehicle, where he began shooting at the school.”

He had 60 magazines and 1,657 bullets of ammunition. They were located as follows.

• 3 on killer’s body
• 1 in Room 112
• 6 in room 11 – 5 on the ground, 1 in the rifle
• 1. Just outside of the school building
• 31 inside killer’s backpack
• 15 on the crash site
• 2 at killer’s residence

This is how the ammunition can be accounted for:

• 350 in school; 142 students were employed and 173 are living.
• 922 Excluded from school and on school property. 22 spent.
• 422 people were at the crash site. 22 of them had died.

35 cartridges of law enforcement were left behind; eight in the hallway and 27 inside the classroom that was used to kill the suspect.

McCraw stated, contrary to media reports, that the shooter made public posts on Facebook about his plans to murder his grandmother. Then he said he’d done it, then said he went to school. McCraw also stated that Ramos had asked his sister in September 2021 to buy him a gun, but she refused.

McCraw made it clear that “there were plenty officers to do whatever needed to be done, with one exception, is that the incident commander inside believed they needed more equipment and more officers to do a tactical breach at that point,” and that “Texas embraces the active shooter doctrine.”

Texas DPS Official:

“Texas embraces and teaches the active shooter doctrine…as long as there’s kids, as long as there’s, someone is firing, you go to the gun, you find them, you neutralize them. Period.” pic.twitter.com/uiRWJpbTxG

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 27, 2022

View the complete press conference.