The 18-year-old gunman who struck the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, entered the building "unobstructed" through an unlocked door and was not engaged by police outside the school as initially indicated, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
In a press conference at the scene of the shooting on Thursday afternoon, DPS regional director Victor Escalon laid out a timeline for the shooting. He said that after shooting his grandmother, Ramos fired at two persons at a nearby funeral home before entering the school – climbing over its fence and entering through its west side door, a video of which was obtained by National Review. The door to the building was unlocked, as was the door to the Grade-4 classroom which Ramos entered and killed 19 students and two teachers.
The spokesman said that no police or law enforcement officers were present at the school at the time, which allowed the shooter to enter the school unobstructed. He claimed that police officers responded to reports of shots fired at the school at 11:44 a.m. local time, four minutes after Ramos was reported to have entered.
The spokesman forcefully pushed back against suggestions that police declined to enter the school after arriving at the premises, as has been suggested by parents of students with videos circulating on social media. Instead, he said that a group of officers from various agencies entered the school immediately after arriving on-scene, but fell back after exchanging gunfire with the suspect. At least one officer was believed to have been hit during that exchange.
The spokesman also corrected earlier reports that Ramos' grandmother was dead. He said that she was alive and in stable condition and was responsible for calling 9-1-1 to alert police of Ramos’s activity.
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