Texas officials said on Thursday afternoon that the alleged school shooter was inside a Uvalde, Texas elementary school for one hour before being taken down by a U. S. Border Patrol tactical team member and is believed to have entered the school unobstructed without confronting a school resource officer, as previous statements suggested.
Victor Escalon, Texas Department of Public Safety regional director for South Texas said Thursday that Salvador Ramos, the alleged school shooter, was inside for one hour before being shot and killed. Ramos allegedly killed 19 students and two teachers during the shooting on Tuesday.
Escalon also said that the officers who first arrived on the scene did not make entry initially because of the "gunfire they're receiving," adding that the U. S. Border Patrol tactical teams arrived one hour later.
"Approximately an hour later, U. S. Border Patrol tactical teams arrive. They make entry, shoot and kill the suspect," Escalon said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety also said that Ramos entered the school "undisrupted" without being confronted by a school district police officer after crashing his vehicle, and also entered through a door that appears to have been unlocked.
"It was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect who was making entry, not accurate. He walked in undisrupted initially. So from the grandmother's house to the party to the school into the school, he was not confronted by anybody," Escalon said. "Right now i... (Read more)
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