Roughly 30 seconds after entering the building, he begins firing into one of the two rooms, according to the timeline. The shooter begins walking and turns into a hallway that leads him to the adjoining classrooms 111 and 112. "In doing so, (the school resource officer) drove right by the suspect, who was hunkered down behind a vehicle, where he began shooting at the school," McCraw had said at the time.Īt Tuesday's hearing, McCraw said that officer reported he was heading for the subject, which also caused confusion early in the police response.Īt 11:33 a.m., the suspect enters the school, according to a timeline that accompanied McCraw's testimony. That educator was the one who called 911 about a man with a gun, McCraw said.)Ī school resource officer who was not on campus but heard the 911 call drove to the area around that time and sped to the back of the school, to a person he thought was the suspect but was a teacher, McCraw said last month. (The door had been propped open by a teacher and later closed by the same teacher before the shooter entered, McCraw said. When the shooter reached the door he entered through, at the school's west entrance, it was unlocked, McCraw said. The gunman fired 27 times while he was outside, shooting into classrooms, according to McCraw. Meanwhile, seconds later, a teacher who was inside the school calls 911 and reports a man with a gun, McCraw said.Īt roughly 11:31 a.m., after firing at the men from the funeral home, the suspect begins shooting at the school from outside, McCraw said. texted: "I just shot my grandma in her head." Moments later, he said he was going to "shoot up" an elementary school.)Īt about 11:29 a.m., two men from the funeral home go out to see the crash. In those messages, he complained about his grandmother and at 11:21 a.m. (Prior to that crash, the gunman was home and messaging a teen in Germany, CNN has previously reported. The 18-year-old gunman had been living with his grandparents, whose home was less than 0.3 miles from the elementary school, according to the director. on May 24,the suspect crashes his grandmother's pickup truck in a ditch in front of the school and a funeral home, McCraw said. (CNN has rounded the seconds in the timeline.)Īt roughly 11:28 a.m. This is the latest timeline from the director, detailing how the tragedy unfolded with the help of funeral home footage, school surveillance 911 and phone recordings and law enforcement body worn camera. That's how long the children waited and the teachers waited.
"One hour, 14 minutes, and eight seconds.
The only thing stopping those officers, McCraw said, was the on-scene commander who "decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children." That commander was Uvalde school district police chief Pedro "Pete" Arredondo. "Three minutes after the subject entered the (school), there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor, to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject," McCraw told the Texas Senate Special Committee to Protect All Texans. Steven McCraw shared a new timeline into the morning of the tragedy, one that offered new details from a previous breakdown he had shared with reporters. On Tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Col.
(CNN) - Four weeks after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 young students and two teachers, one of the state's top law enforcement officials offered a minute-by-minute breakdown of the police response - and called it an "abject failure." According to reports, 19 students and 2 adults were killed, with the gunman fatally shot by law enforcement. A memorial is seen surrounding the Robb Elementary School sign following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 26 in Uvalde, Texas.
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