Everything we know about what police did and didn’t do in Uvalde
Law-enforcement officers gather outside of Robb Elementary School following the mass shooting there on May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images On the morning of May 24, a gunman armed with an AR-15 walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and opened fire in a fourth-grade classroom, killing 19 children and two teachers.
What do we know about these “conflicting reports”? There are many details from the first official reports of the Uvalde shooting that have since changed or been completely debunked. For example, initial reports indicated that Ramos wore body armor during the shooting, though that does not appear to have been the case.
How long did it take for law enforcement to enter the school? Ramos reportedly arrived at the school after driving from his grandmother’s house about two minutes away and crashing his truck into a nearby ditch. By that time, he had sent three direct messages on Facebook outlining his plans to shoot his grandma, confirming that he had done it, and saying he was headed for an elementary school next.
On June 20, the Texas Tribune published a report drawing on a law enforcement investigation, radio transcripts, and surveillance footage; the Texas Department of Public Safety reportedly confirmed its contents. According to the Tribune, a handful of police officers gained entry to the school “early” on, shortly after Ramos initially opened fire. The first three officers carried handguns.
Angeli Rose Gomez told The Wall Street Journal that she drove to her children’s school after hearing about the attack and saw police “just standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.” She said she and others politely asked them to intervene, then began pleading. Gomez said federal marshals handcuffed her, telling her she was under arrest for interfering in the investigation. She saw other parents pepper-sprayed and tackled to the ground and Tasered, she added.
Video subsequently circulating on social media suggests some officers may have been otherwise engaged. In the footage, officers appear to have pinned a bystander to the ground in the parking lot outside the school, while colleagues in tactical gear walk around, trying to corral the crowd away from crime-scene tape. But once officers did make it into the elementary school, the shooting reportedly did not end immediately.
Where was the Border Patrol tactical team? Reports about Border Patrol’s involvement in the response to the shooting are still incomplete, but on Friday, May 27, it was reported that the tactical team that eventually led the charge into the classroom arrived between 12 p.m. and 12:10 p.m. That’s 50 minutes before they breached the classroom and subdued the shooter. The New York Times reported that it was the Uvalde Police Department that kept Border Patrol from engaging, though it’s unclear why.
Representative Joaquin Castro requests an FBI investigation into the police response in Uvalde. After officials addressed the press on Thursday, Texas Representative Joaquin Castro wrote an open letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, calling for an investigation into the police response to the shooting. “The people of Uvalde, of Texas, and of the nation deserve an accurate account of what transpired,” he wrote.
At a Texas Senate hearing on June 21, McCraw claimed that police could’ve put an end to the shooting within three minutes if they’d acted, and called their response an “abject failure.” Based on the information currently available, McCraw said, it appeared the classroom door only locked from the outside — meaning that Ramos couldn’t have closed himself inside, and police wasted valuable time looking for a key they didn’t need.
Local law enforcement has reportedly stopped cooperating with the Texas Department of Public Safety investigation. On Tuesday, May 31, it was ABC News reported that the Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde Independent School District police — both of which were on site during the Robb Elementary School shooting — had stopped cooperating with the state-level investigation into the response. ABC News cited sources that claimed that the cooperations topped after Col.
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