One teacher was shot twice through his arm and lung and another through his back, but survived. He told his kids to lay down and pretend to be asleep and he did the same (sounds like that's their protocol). He said him and the kids could hear the cops in the hallway, some kids in the other room spoke up and the shooter heard them. Survivor's guilt there has to be unfathomable, but he was shot twice and couldn't get in front of a camera for almost 2 weeks, it's hard to think he could have done more. The timeline has been out there for a while, but I just can't quit looking at it.
Reyes said students could hear police outside the classroom, and one of them called for help. “One of the students from the next-door classroom was saying, ‘Officer, we’re in here, we’re in here,’” Reyes said. “But they had already left.” The gunmen walked to that classroom and opened fire again, Reyes said. A timeline from Steve McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, says that seven officers entered the school by 11:35 a.m., just minutes after the gunman entered the building. They took on gunfire and retreated.
At 12:03 p.m., a girl called 911 and whispered that she was in room 112. She called again at 12:10 p.m. and said there were multiple dead. She called again at 12:13 p.m. and then again at 12:16 p.m., when she said there are eight to nine students alive.
At 12:50 p.m., officers opened the door with keys from a school employee and entered the room, killing the gunman, according to McCraw.
She was in there for 32 minutes before getting a chance to dial 911. ~"WTF! we know y'all are here, we can hear you through the freaking wall".
I'm running out of ways to describe how infuriating this all is.