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Multiple officers were inside Robb Elementary School armed with
rifles and at least one ballistic shield by 11:52 a.m. on May
24, but they didn't breach a classroom door and take out the
gunman who killed 19 children and two adults for nearly an hour,
according to documents reviewed by the Austin-American Statesman.

The new details shed light on the shifting timeline that law
enforcement has provided about the response to the third-
deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.

Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old suspected gunman, walked into
the school at 11:33 a.m. then entered a pair of adjoining
classrooms and opened fire.

Three minutes later, 11 officers entered the school. The first
officer with a ballistic shield arrived at 11:52 a.m., while two
other officers with ballistics shield arrived at 12:03 p.m. and
12:05 p.m., according to the Austin American-Statesman.

As ballistic shields and additional firepower arrived at the
scene, some officers were questioning the plan. According to the
Texas Tribune, a special agent with the Texas Department of
Public Safety arrived about 20 minutes after the shooting
started and immediately asked if there were still children in
the classrooms. He then reportedly said: "If there is, then they
just need to go in."

Another officer replied that it was unclear if there were any
children in the classrooms and the special agent again
reiterated the need "to go in there." The special agent was then
told that whoever was in charge would determine that, the
Tribune reported. The special agent then began to help evacuate
other children who were still in the school.

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw
previously said that the incident commander, Uvalde school
police chief Pete Arredondo, thought that the situation had
transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject, and
that there was "time to retrieve the keys and wait for a
tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the
door."

After police entered the school, the gunman could be heard
firing shots inside the classroom at 11:44 a.m. and 12:21 p.m.,
the Statesman reports.

Several 911 calls were also made from inside the classroom,
including at 12:03, 12:10, 12:13, 12:16, 12:19, and 12:36 p.m.

Eva Mireles, a teacher who died on the way to the hospital after
the shooting, called her husband, Uvalde school district police
officer Ruben Ruiz, and said that she was wounded.

"She says she is shot," Ruiz told officers as he entered the
school around 11:48 a.m., according to the body camera
transcript reviewed by the New York Times.

A banner hangs at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School on
Friday, June 3. (AP/Eric Gay)

Officials have also said that law enforcement held back while
they tried to find a key to open the classroom door, but San
Antonio Express-News reported last week that the classroom door
was unlocked and no one ever checked the door before breaching
it at 12:50 p.m. and taking out the gunman.

A Halligan bar, an ax-like tool used by firefighters to force
open locked doors, was also available if the door had been
locked, according to the Texas Tribune.

Officials offered conflicting information on the timeline in the
days after the shooting, but have not held any press conferences
for weeks.

A special House committee investigating the shooting has been
questioning law enforcement officials behind closed doors.

Another committee formed in the Senate will hold a public
hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday in which the public and invited
speakers will testify on school safety, police training, and
social media.

At the federal level, the Justice Department is also conducting
an independent review of law enforcement's response.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/uvalde-shooting-officers-rifles-
ballistic-shield-inside-school-58-minutes