There was no school resource officer at the school; gunman entered through unlocked door.

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Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering
As police detail new timeline of mass shooting at elementary school, community members express anger and frustration

A makeshift memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed this week.
PHOTO: ALLISON DINNER/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
By Elizabeth FindellFollow
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and Douglas BelkinFollow
Updated May 26, 2022 4:06 pm ET

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UVALDE, Texas—The gunman behind the mass shooting at an elementary school here lingered outside the building for 12 minutes firing shots before walking into the school and barricading in a classroom where he killed 19 children and two teachers, authorities said in a news conference Thursday laying out a new timeline of events.

Victor Escalon, a regional director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said he couldn’t say why no one stopped the now deceased gunman, 18 year-old Salvador Ramos, from entering the school during that time Tuesday. Most of the shots Ramos fired came during the first several minutes after he entered the school, Mr. Escalon said.

DPS officials previously said an armed school officer confronted Ramos as he arrived at the school. Mr. Escalon said Thursday that information was incorrect and no one encountered Ramos as he arrived at the school. “There was not an officer readily available and armed,” Mr. Escalon said.

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Ramos shot his grandmother Tuesday morning and then used her truck to drive to Robb Elementary School, crashing the truck into a nearby ditch at 11:28 a.m., according to the timeline laid out by Mr. Escalon. The gunman then began shooting at people at a funeral home across the street, prompting a 911 call reporting a gunman at the school at 11:30. Ramos then climbed a fence onto school grounds and began firing before walking inside, unimpeded, at 11:40. The first police arrived on the scene at 11:44 and exchanged gunfire with Ramos, who barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom. There, he killed the students and teachers.

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A Border Patrol tactical team went into the school an hour later, around 12:40, was able to get into the classroom and kill Ramos, Mr. Escalon said.

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Didn’t he see the Gun Free Zone sign?!?

Do most elementary schools have SRO? In a town with population of 15k

There are so many reasons why school security is vital to the safety of our children, and a mass murdering gunman is just one of many.

I can see it... all kinds of end of year programs going on and parents coming and going... people get lackadaisical

What a fricking shite show the response to this was from LEO. Until this afternoon I was inclined to give them some room to clarify the timeline and benefit of the doubt, but it sounds like it is even worse than others were speculating.

We can sit here and point fingers at every little detail, but the fact is.. In smaller towns, there is a different sense of security. There are a lot of "what ifs" but that doesn't change anything.

The reality is, we live in a world where what use to be unimaginable is now possible. While I am pro gun, if he wasn't able to buy an AR15 until he was 21 this wouldn't have happened. How can someone not be allowed to purchase a hand gun until they are 21, but can purchase an AR15 at 18.

That's on par with our government. shite that doesn't make since. At 18 you should be able to buy a gun to protect themselves, but instead you have to wait until you are 21, but if you want a high powered rifle that has so much power you can't even hunt with it and its too big to keep on you for protection then you can buy it at 18.. I say make it legal at the age of 17 to buy a gun for protection then 21 for an AR15.

But nothing will change and because of that we just have to accept when these things happen. You think they will just all of a sudden stop? It might happen again next year or it might be 5 years from now, but there will be another fricking idiot 18, 19 year old who will easily go buy an AR15 to shoot up another school, hospital, grocery store, church or maybe even a ball park next.. and it will be the same ole thing.. People are heart broken, say things need to be changed.. A week later move on to something else.

18 years old. No job. Lives with grandma. Magically acquires two Daniel Defense AR-15s, body armor, and fancy optics.

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