So when exactly did officers enter the building? If there has been a timeline released I haven't seen it. This guy makes it sound like officers were in the building for a while before the border patrol guy (an possibly others) showed up.
Below, is just as fuzzy. Were officers in the building and that's why the shooter was barricaded in? Regardless, negotiations should not even be an option in the situation. That boggles my mind that was even a thought.
"Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Tex.), whose district includes Uvalde, said he was told in a briefing that gunfire appeared to halt for a
half-hour period after the gunman was barricaded or trapped in the classroom.
“That’s where there’s kind of a lull in the action,” Gonzales told CNN. “All of it, I understand, lasted about an hour, but this is where there’s kind of a 30-minute lull.
They feel as if they’ve got him barricaded in. The rest of the students in the school are now leaving.”
Citing preliminary information, Escalon on Thursday said that “during the
negotiation there wasn’t much gunfire, other than trying to keep the officers at bay.” Authorities had not previously mentioned any negotiations between law enforcement and the gunman, and Escalon did not elaborate.
Eventually, a tactical team of federal and local officers was put together. Agents from an elite Border Patrol tactical unit led a phalanx into the classroom protected by a ballistic shield. They fired at the gunman, according to two federal law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide preliminary details. The gunman fired at the officers as they entered, one official said. During the exchange of fire, the official said, one agent was shot in the foot and grazed in the head.
Authorities have not said precisely what time the gunman was shot, but Escalon on Thursday said it was approximately one hour after the first responding officers arrived. Uvalde police announced on social media at 1:06 p.m. that the gunman was under the control of law enforcement."
