He saw about five officers helping people evacuate and about 20 minutes after arriving said he spotted officers coming with heavy shields for the first time. He is a gun owner but, in his rush, didn’t have it with him. Parent Javier Cazares had raced to Robb elementary, his daughter Jacklyn’s school, when he had heard there was a shooting, leaving his truck running with the door open as he ran into the school yard.
Meanwhile, children and teachers elsewhere in the building were trying to escape, some climbing out of windows. In the nearly half-hour after the first officers went inside, as many as 19 piled into the hallway, authorities said. The employees didn’t know what “code black” meant but closed blinds, locked the doors and escorted children behind a stage, said the worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid publicity. Two minutes after he entered the school, three police officers followed and were quickly joined by four more.Īuthorities said Ramos exchanged fire from the classroom with the officers in the hallway and two of them suffered “grazing wounds”.Īfter shots started ringing out, a cafeteria worker who had just finished serving chicken tacos to 75 third-graders said a woman shouted into the lunchroom: “Code black. The shooter rapidly fired more than 100 rounds then moved into the adjacent room, where witnesses heard screams, more gunfire and morbid music being blared by Ramos. The Associated Press chronicled the incident based on law enforcement reports, records and interviews with Uvalde residents. The gunman slipped through the open door and into adjoining fourth-grade classrooms packed with nine-, 10 and 11-year-olds, overseen by two teachers, at 11.33am, authorities said. He hopped over a fence and approached the school – still shooting – as panicked people nearby called the police.Īuthorities initially said Ramos exchanged fire with a school police officer before entering the building, but they later said the officer was not actually on campus and “sped” back upon hearing of the incident.īut the officer initially headed for the wrong man, confronting someone who turned out to be a teacher, after passing Ramos, who crouched behind a vehicle. Some of the 21 people he ultimately killed, including 19 children and two teachers, are now in caskets in that same funeral home, waiting to be laid to rest in a town devastated by shock, grief – and also anger at police failings now being reviewed by the federal government and at inaction on gun safety laws by state and federal politicians. The gunman had an assault rifle and a backpack crammed with ammunition, and shot at two men who emerged from the funeral home right across the street from the school. That door was usually closed and locked, according to the school security protocol, but was ajar. She has survived and remained in the hospital on Monday.īy 11.28am the gunman had reached Robb elementary, half a mile away, and crashed the pickup in a ditch, authorities said.Īt that moment, video shows a teacher entering the school through a door that the teacher had emerged from and propped open moments earlier. Moments later, the grandmother, Celia Martinez Gonzales, 66, who is known as Sally, came out covered in blood after being shot in the face, crying out. He seemed panicked and struggled to get the Ford going, the neighbor, Gilbert Gallegos, said, then drove off in a spray of gravel. Around 11am, a neighbor of the grandmother heard a shot and saw Salvador Ramos run out of the front door of his grandparents’ home to a pickup truck.
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