{"id":1493798,"date":"2022-05-26T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493798"},"modified":"2022-05-26T18:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:44:48","slug":"uvalde-shooter-fired-outside-school-for-12-minutes-before-entering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uvalde-shooter-fired-outside-school-for-12-minutes-before-entering\/","title":{"rendered":"Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuvalde-shooter-fired-outside-school-for-12-minutes-before-entering%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493798&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Unbelievable. This just broke from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/uvalde-residents-voice-frustration-over-shooting-response-11653588161\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>UVALDE, Texas\u2014The gunman behind <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/suspected-shooter-at-texas-elementary-school-in-custody-after-incident-11653422735?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener\">the mass shooting at an elementary school<\/a> here <strong>lingered outside the building for 12 minutes firing shots<\/strong> before walking into the school and barricading in a classroom where <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/texas-school-shooting-victims-11653438058?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener\">he killed 19 children and two teachers<\/a>, authorities said in a news conference Thursday laying out a new timeline of events.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Escalon, a regional director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said <strong>he couldn&#8217;t say why no one stopped <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/texas-gunman-had-hostile-violent-streaks-former-classmates-say-11653526108?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>the deceased gunman<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 18 year-old Salvador Ramos, from entering the school during that time Tuesday<\/strong>. Most of the shots Ramos fired came during the first several minutes when he entered the school, Mr. Escalon said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DPS officials <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/texas-school-shooting-victims-were-killed-in-one-classroom-11653484041?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>previously said<\/strong><\/a><strong> 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<\/strong>. &#8220;There was not an officer readily available and armed,&#8221; Mr. Escalon said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>JUST WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?<\/h4>\n<p>Why does all the information keep changing? Especially this long after the fact?<\/p>\n<p>Why was everyone told that the shooter was pursued by police before crashing his car and barricading himself in the classroom?<\/p>\n<p>Why did the Texas Department of Public Safety say that the shooter was engaged by an armed school safety officer before he went into the classroom?<\/p>\n<p>Said school safety officer never even existed, and that&#8217;s just now coming out?<\/p>\n<p>This guy let off shots outside an elementary school in Texas for 12 minutes and nobody did anything?<\/p>\n<p>This is just not sitting well with me.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the new timeline of events, from the WSJ:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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. <strong>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 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-happened-in-uvalde-texas-school-shooting-leaves-21-dead-including-19-children-11653485715?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> There, he killed the students and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/border-patrol-agents-who-killed-texas-school-shooter-were-from-agencys-elite-team-11653508857?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener\">Border Patrol tactical team<\/a> went into the school an hour later, around 12:40, was able to get into the classroom and kill Ramos, Mr. Escalon said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, did you know responding officers were unable to get into the classroom door and <strong>had to go find a staff member with a key to open it?<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683\" rel=\"noopener\">From AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said the <strong>Border Patrol agents had trouble breaching the classroom door and had to get a staff member to open the room with a key<\/strong>. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Does that make any sense to you?<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t miss this part from the WSJ article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s updates came as <strong>Uvalde residents were asking questions and expressing anger over the time it took for law enforcement to end the school shooting<\/strong>. Videos circulated on social media showing parents confronting police outside the building while Ramos was barricaded in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The police were doing nothing,&#8221; said Angeli Rose Gomez, who after learning about the shooting drove 40 miles to Robb Elementary School, where her children are in second and third grade. &#8220;They were just standing outside the fence. They weren&#8217;t going in there or running anywhere.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not trying to be weird or suggest anything crazy. I am not trying to be an agitator or score points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am just saying that none of this makes any sense, and given the circumstances that is unacceptable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>What is going on here? This is all too terrible for words and we need answers.<\/h4>\n<hr class=\"w-32 my-8 border-gray-400\" \/>\n<p>\nP.S. Now treat yourself to our viral video &#8220;How to speak Bidenese&#8221; \ud83d\ude01\ud83d\udc47\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMppoR1vQWcKXOVw1Pwoj7A?sub_confirmation=1\" class=\"text-sm underline\">Keep up with our latest videos \u2014 Subscribe to our YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unbelievable. This just broke from the Wall Street Journal:UVALDE, Texas\u2014The gunman behind the mass shooting at an elementary school here lingered outside the building for 12 minutes firing shots before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}