UVALDE — It was 11:28 a.m. when the Ford pickup slammed into a ditch behind the low-slung Texas school and the driver jumped out carrying an AR-15-style rifle. ...
A media briefing Thursday to clarify the timeline of the attack provided bits of previously unknown information but added to the troubling questions surrounding the attack.
“They say they rushed in,” said Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack. He raced to the school as the massacre unfolded. “We didn’t see that.”On Thursday, authorities largely ignored questions about why officers had not been able to stop the shooter sooner, with Victor Escalon, regional director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, telling reporters he had “taken all those questions into consideration” and would offer updates later.
But the first police officers did not arrive on the scene until 12 minutes after the crash and and did not enter the school to pursue the shooter until four minutes after that. Inside, they were driven back by gunfire from Ramos and took cover, Escalon said. Many other details of the case and the response remained murky. The motive for the massacre — the nation’s deadliest school shooting since Newtown, Conn., almost a decade ago — remained under investigation, with authorities saying Ramos had no known criminal or mental health history.
“What we wanted to make sure is to act quickly, act swiftly, and that’s exactly what those agents did,” Ortiz told Fox News.
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