A few anomalies regarding the school shooting.

The shooter was teased for being poor. He was driving a $70,000,00 pickup and had a couple of very expensive rifles as well as wearing body armor. He shot his grandmother over an unpaid phone bill, drove away, got his truck stuck and started shooting at a funeral home. After 12 minutes of shooting at the funeral home he crossed the street and entered the school through an open door. He then barricaded himself in a room where he killed the kids and teachers. The cops gathered outside and did not try to enter the school because they said they didn't have a ballistic shield. Many parents gathered and urged the police to act. Federal marshals detained several parents. Other parents broke into the school and brought out their children. After an hour or so some Border Guards arrived, stormed the school and killed the shooter. The border guard who entered the room and killed the shooter was grazed by a bullet from the shooter. The bullet went through the border agent's baseball cap and opened a wound in the agent's scalp.

A few questions:
1) How did the shooter afford the truck, rifles and body armor if he couldn't pay his phone bill?
2) Where were the police when he was shooting at the funeral home?
3) Why were the doors of the school still open when there were shots being fired across the street from the school?
4) Why didn't the police do anything?
5) Why were there federal marshals there?
6) Why were the police and federal marshals arresting parents?
7) Why were the border agents the ones to enter the building?
8) If lack of protection kept the cops out why did the border guards go in without adequate protection?

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Pretzel · 70-79, M

well, according to the limited googling I've done

1) it was grandma's truck (the one he shot in the face). how she afforded the truck I don't know - and why anybody in their right might would pay that kind of money is beyond me.

2) he wasn't shooting at the funeral home but at two employees off the funeral home that approached the gunman after he put the truck in the ditch.

as far as the location of the police the first 911 call came in at 11:30 and 3 police officers were on scene/out of their vehicle and in the school at 11:35 and 2 of them received grazing wounds.

3) don't have a complete answer but it is probably because of the short duration between the first shots fired and the teacher noticing the gunman

4) see #2

5) a twitter report said that at 11:30 the Federal Marshals received a request for assistance (having worked around law enfforcement for 20 years - civiliian) I've obeserved it normal for any cop with a badge and a gun to run towards danger while others are hunkered down or running away.

6) I've only seen reports that one mother was arrested and handcuffed (there may have been more) because she was trying to save her kid(s). Basically she was going to put herself in harm's way, had no way of knowing where her child was at the moment, would make another potential hostage or fatality and was not obeying legal orders of the police.

7) The Boder agents were actually a special trained response team with the training and equipment to enter an active shooter scene. Don't know if the the local police had such a team or not.

8) see #7

The cop that did the briefing was basing it on survillance videos and 911 call information.

It may not be 100% accurate and may be subject to change as more details become known.

And there will be people that deny it even happened like they did in Sandy Hook.

The one question you didn't ask is "why was an outside door to a school be proppped open in violation of school policy". But I suspect that was maintenance or delivery oriented.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-school-shooting-timeline-robb-elementary-school-attack/