Police waited outside Robb Elementary School for 56 minutes before Border Patrol Tactical Unit entered the school, it took 14 minutes for the police to arrive. Total time before law enforcement entered the school after first call is 70 minutes.
While 19 children and two teachers were being murdered inside the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, police waited outside the school trying to decide what to do. Eventually it wasn’t the police who entered, but a Border Patrol Tactical Unit. The murderer also apparently walked into the unlocked school without being obstructed in any way. In despair, parents pleaded with the police to enter the school.
“Shoot him or something!” a woman’s voice can be heard yelling on a video, before a man is heard saying about the officers, “They’re all just [expletive] parked outside, dude. They need to go in there.”
Parents can be heard yelling to each other that their kids were inside the school and that they needed to get in. A woman can be heard yelling at a police officer, “He’s one person! Take him out!” . . .
But it wasn’t the police who eventually entered. It took 56 minutes before the Border Patrol Tactical Unit entered the school.
Ramos shot his grandmother Tuesday morning and used her truck to drive to Robb Elementary School, crashing the vehicle 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 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 locked himself in a fourth-grade classroom. There, he killed the students and teachers.
A Border Patrol tactical team went into the school an hour later, around 12:40 p.m., was able to get into the classroom and kill Ramos, Mr. Escalon said. . . .
