The Police’s Timeline of the Texas School Shooting

In a news conference Friday, Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, offered a more detailed timeline of events during the shooting Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

In the updated sequence of events, the police sought to explain an hour-long gap during which law enforcement officials entered the school, but did not engage the shooter. Mr. McCraw also revised facts about the timeline previously stated by other officials. What follows is the timeline he laid out, including his account of several 911 calls that were made.

11:27 a.m. According to video evidence, Mr. McCraw said, the door where the shooter entered the school had been propped open by a teacher.

11:28 The gunman’s truck crashes nearby. The teacher at the door enters the school, apparently to retrieve a phone.

At the same time, two men at the funeral home across the street hear the truck crash. They run toward the truck and see the suspect, Salvador Ramos, exit with a gun and a backpack. The men flee, and the gunman fires at them but misses. One of them falls while running, but both make it back to the funeral home. The gunman travels on foot toward the school.

The teacher appears on video inside the school, now talking on a phone, apparently to 911.

11:30 A witness who called 911, possibly the teacher, says a vehicle has crashed and there’s a man with a gun there.

11:31 Now in the school parking lot, the gunman begins shooting at the school. Meanwhile, a patrol vehicle arrives at the funeral home. An officer drives into the school parking lot, passing by the gunman, and eventually confronts someone in the parking lot who turns out to be a teacher.

11:32 More shots are fired at the school.

11:33 The suspect enters the school and walks down a hallway toward two classrooms, 111 and 112, which are connected by a bathroom. He fires more than 100 rounds.

11:35 Three Uvalde Police Department officers enter the school through the same door used by the gunman and two are grazed by gunfire. Four more officers later enter the building, including the deputy county sheriff. Both doors into the adjoining classrooms where the gunman is located are locked at this time.

11:37 Another 16 rounds are fired.

11:51 The police sergeant and other law enforcement agents start to arrive.

12:03 p.m. By this time, as many as 19 officers have gathered in the school hallway. A student calls 911 and whispers that she is in Room 112. The call lasts 1 minute 23 seconds.

12:10 The same student calls 911 again and says that multiple people are dead.

12:13 The same student again calls 911.

12:15 Members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit arrive with shields.

12:16 The same student calls 911 again and says eight to nine students are still alive.

12:19 A different student, this one in Room 111, calls, but hangs up when another student tells her to.

12:21 The gunman, believed to be at the classroom door, fires again. Officers move down the hallway. Shots are heard over a 911 call from inside.

12:36 The first student calls 911 again. She is told to stay on the line and stay quiet. The student tells 911 that the gunman shot the door.

12:43 and 12:47 The student on the line asks 911 to please send the police now.

12:46 The student says that she can hear the police next door.

12:50 Law enforcement officers breach a classroom door using keys they’ve obtained from a janitor and kill the suspect. Shots are heard over the 911 call.

12:51 On the 911 call, officers could be heard moving children out of the classroom. When the call ends, the same child who had called is outside.