Ramos arrived at the school at 11:30am. He was not shot dead until almost 1pm. One officer can be heard saying, as Arredondo tells them to hold back: ‘If there’s kids in there, we need to go in there.’
Several shots could be heard inside the classrooms, after a long lull, around 12:21pm. Another says to a sergeant, just before 12:30pm: ‘There’s a teacher shot in there.’
The sergeant replied: ‘I know.’ Arredondo himself is believed to be overheard saying: ‘We think there are some injuries in there.’
Who knew that a standard metal door frame with the typical wooden school door would stop a heavily armed team of law enforcement officers in their tracks until they found a key.
Various drug dealers, criminals, and characters who have had police break into their homes with no-knock warrants could have just put in a slightly stronger door and all of the FBI and SWAT teams would have had to stand around outside and wait for somebody to give them a key.
Do the government officials in Uvalde think everyone else is as gullible and dumb as they appear to be?