After climbing a fence into the school’s parking lot, he fired at the outside of the building before entering through an unlocked door at 11:40 a.m. Mr. Escalon said there was no armed guard at the school, contrary to previous reports, and Mr. Ramos encountered no opposition on his way in.
The first calls to police – about a car crash, and a man with a gun – came in around 11:30 a.m., Mr. Escalon said. It was about 14 minutes later, and within four minutes of Mr. Ramos’s entry to the school, that, according to Mr. Escalon’s account, local police arrived on the scene.