The Uvalde school shooter may have entered Robb Elementary through a door that was propped open by a teacher at the school, law enforcement revealed Friday.
Salvador Ramos, 18, crashed his vehicle into a ditch near the school prior to the shooting and entered the building unobstructed, officials said. The school’s resource officer also drove to campus after hearing a 911 call and inadvertently drove past the shooter, who was kneeling down by a car, Texas Department of Public Safety Director and Col. Steven McCraw said at a press briefing.
“That officer was not on scene, not on campus, but had heard the 911 call about the man with the gun and drove immediately to the area, sped to what he thought was the man with the gun to the back of the school and what turned out to be a teacher and not the suspect,” McCraw said at the Friday briefing.
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The sound of Ramos crashing his vehicle alerted two males at a funeral home nearby, who saw Ramos leaving the passenger side of the car with a gun and a backpack, officials said. Ramos fired at the two but missed, and both returned to the funeral home, Victor Escalon, regional director for the Texas DPS, said.
When asked whether officers went into the school to rescue their own children while parents waited outside, McCraw responded, “Not that I’m aware of, no.”
Ramos had not posted on Facebook that he would shoot up a school, as was previously reported, but he did message someone through the Facebook application Messenger that he would commit a school shooting, McCraw said. He was also not one of the two teenagers arrested in 2018 who were planning a school shooting, he clarified.
Ramos had been in an Instagram chat with four other people on March 1 in which he expressed interest in buying a gun. On March 14, he wrote, “10 more days,” prompting some to ask whether he would commit a school shooting, to which he replied, “No. Stop asking dumb questions and you’ll see.”
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McCraw acknowledged police had made several incorrect calls at the time of the shooting and said the situation of an active shooter constantly changes.
Ramos is accused of opening fire at the Texas elementary school Tuesday, killing 19 students and two teachers.
