witnesses are now saying they were urging police to go inside rob elementary school and the timeline is becoming clearer. the shooter may have been in the classroom 40 minutes from the time he opened fire to when the tactical team shot him. governor greg abbott addressed the shooter s chilling facebook posts before the shooting. the only information that was known in advance was posted by the gunman on facebook, the first post was i m going to shoot my grandmother. the second post was i shot my grandmother. the third post was i m going to shoot an elementary school. harris: the frightening image shows how close the agent came to getting a bullet through the head with a round of ammunition ripping a hole through the fabric and injuring his scalp. bill melugin is in uvalde. a lot of questions today about that timeline. good morning to you. there are. quickly i would like to show you the front page of the local newspaper here in uvalde this morning. the uvalde leader news.
you may not want to send a rank and file police officer in there who isn t as trained in swat tactics. you wait for the guys with the shield. you don t want to send someone in to be a recipient of bullets. they went in with a shield first. the first guys absorbing the bullets coming in allowing the second and third member of that tactical team to roll off right or left and engage the shooter. i m defaulting to the port of the investment and courage of our law enforcement knowing everything can always happen faster. i have to believe they wanted to do the best they could. this is sheer evil and with he pray for the families right now. harris: so well put and your tactical experience having been in the military helped us out there, too. because my initial question still stands. why was there an unlocked door during a lockdown? it doesn t matter who shows up when if that fortified door is secured. it has to be more difficult.
right and left. two classrooms adjoining. that s where the carnage began. as he was shooting it would be within 40 minutes or an hour but bottom line is law enforcement was there. they did engage immediately. they did contain him in the classroom. i can relate to the fog of gathering information in that situation. shots fired. somehow gets into the school. that s another question. 10, 15 minutes before they i defrnt file he is in the school. where is he there? once you find him there how do you get into the classroom? we fortify these classrooms to make sure that shooters can t get inside them when you have an active shooter drill. it also means it is difficult for law enforcement to get inside them. reports are they had to find the key for that classroom in order to get in because they couldn t force their way in. maybe that means that door is fortified as other school shooter protocols have required in certain places. so you can t blow your way in the door plus you have kids behind
this scenario predicated. with the school you want to get in as fast as possible. you have 8, 9 and 10-year-old in the classroom. you can t use the aggressive tactics outside the door for fear of injuring or killing more young kids who are in that classroom. harris: that s the case when you think there might be hostages. you are right. tenderness of their age. the school was supposed to be o b on lock down. there was a door unlocked. i just want to know the basics once he left his grandmother s house. there is a bit of a timeline coming into clearer focus and you re right. you heard bill melugin just reporting, was it 40 or 60 minutes? 40 minutes or an hour? this is what the texas department of public safety director said about the timeline. let s watch. went down a hallway, turned