Based on what I’ve learned through official press conferences and open source reporting, here’s my understanding of how the Uvalde massacre unfolded:
1-Shooter sends friend a FB message saying “I’m going to shoot my grandmother.”
2-Shooter is involved in a domestic altercation and shoots his grandmother.
3-Shooter sends a second FB message saying “I shot my grandmother.”
4-Shooter sends FB message saying “I’m going to shoot up the elementary school.”
5-Shooter takes grandmother’s truck, drives toward school, and crashes into a ditch roughly 100-150 yards from the school.
6-Employees of a funeral home a short distance away come outside to investigate, shooter fires at them but misses.
7-Shooter, wearing a plate carrier with mag pouches but no armor, leaves one rifle in the truck and walks toward school with one rifle and a bag of loaded magazines.
8-Shooter climbs school fence into parking lot and opens fire on school from outside.
(8A- No officer or security guard is on campus. 911 calls are made from school. Shooter walks around outside shooting for up to twelve minutes [not yet confirmed, waiting on timeline].)
9-Shooter enters school through unlocked rear door.
10-Uvalde PD and ISD PD officers arrive and make entry to school within four minutes of shooter’s entry.
11-Officers encounter shooter in a hallway and exchange gunfire. Two officers may have been hit and wounded. Officers retreat to cover but stay inside school.
12-Shooter enters classroom through unlocked door and locks door behind him, effectively barricading himself inside.
(12A-Uvalde officers advance on classroom but have no entry tools and are unable to breach door. Shooter reportedly fires on them and forces them to retreat again. Uvalde officers call for assistance.)
13-Within the next few minutes, the majority of victims are killed.
14-As additional officers arrive, some are sent outside to maintain perimeter security.
15-Officers inside treat situation as a “barricaded suspect” or hostage event and attempt to establish contact. Shooter never responds. Shots are fired periodically inside classroom.
16-Approximately an hour after shooter entered classroom, a tactical team composed of four CBP officers and several locals uses a key to make entry.
17-Immediately upon entry they are fired upon, and kill the shooter.
Caveat: official reporting and information released at press conferences has been extremely confusing and contradictory. Open source reporting and witness reports have sometimes contradicted all official reporting. The timeline I’ve created is almost certainly flawed and will be amended as additional information is presented.
Major takeaway: if officers remained outside for an hour while shots were being fired inside a classroom, this will become a Columbine-like example of what cops shouldn’t do.
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Originally Posted by Boom
