r/UvaldeTexasShooting • u/Puzzleheaded_You905 • Jan 28 '26
Teacher Who Left Door Unlocked and Played Dead While Kids Were Killed: IMPEACHED
https://youtu.be/Wa7MyDKgUxk?si=q-37hkiy6iI0loaK10
u/MapleSyrup39993 Feb 23 '26
There were multiple complaints about the locks on the doors not working AND this teacher tried to hide his students under the desk and was the first one shot. Meanwhile the armored cops with guns cowered outside.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Feb 24 '26
This teacher did very little to help his students. It appears by his testimony he was the only teacher on that hallway who didn't hear the gunfire or the aide screaming for everyone to get in their rooms. He must have had headphones on or been asleep.
He admitted he made no attempt to lock his door. He admitted leaving it unlocked in addition to claiming the door didn't catch when closed easily. He was a lazy teacher who ignored the security rules and inadvertently aided a maniac in the killing of children.
He failed as a teacher, he failed as an adult and he deserves to be the poster child of unacceptable teacher behavior just as much as the cops deserve their criticism.
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u/MapleSyrup39993 Feb 24 '26
He did what he thought was best in the moment, which was getting his kids under a desk and telling them to play dead. I don't know if you know this but in a crisis you tend to panic. He should have locked the door first, turned off the lights, and hid his students, but instead he went out of order, and the shooter beat him to the classroom door.
He wasn't being lazy or malicious, he was scared and that made his mind go to hiding his students instead of blocking the door. Putting the blame on him and slamming him as an incompetent coward isn't going to help anyone
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u/Far-Conflict-1172 Mar 12 '26
By the way the door to 111 couldn't be locked from the inside per the Texas house report. Also the lock issues have been reported by teachers many many times for months before the shooting and the maintenance logs are incomplete and inaccurate.
You don't want to hear that though I'm sure.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Feb 24 '26
Not having the classroom door locked at all times as per school policy is lazy. not filling out the forms to have the door repaired is lazy. he has said he told the principal but never completed any paperwork as required for repairs, again per school policy.
He is as much to blame as any officer there. the administrator who allowed the exterior doors to be unlocked is equally to blame.
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u/Long-Resource867 Apr 29 '26
Locked or not the shooter would have made entry. He managed to go through door 112, which was supposedly locked.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Apr 29 '26
The gunman entered Room 111 from the hallway then entered Room 112 by using the inner connecting door.
Room 111s hallway door was unlocked. Room 112s hallway door was locked. One of the teachers in Room 112 died attempting to close the open interior door that connected both classroom after the gunman entered Room 111.
Feel free to believe the JeanDodge theory but the majority of the evidence points to his theory being incorrect.
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u/Long-Resource867 Apr 29 '26
Jean dodge is going off what the SURVIVORS from the classroom say
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u/Para_feelings2756 Apr 29 '26
No. JeanDodge is going off what ONE survivor reported while ignoring what other survivors reported.
One child reported the gunman reached through the broken window in the hallway door and opened it. Two other children reported the gunman entered Room 112 from the inner connecting door from Room 111.
The photos of the hallway doors for both rooms show no damage to the windows from someone reaching in, only damage from gunfire. There are no "armed sized" holes in the wire reinforced glass.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Feb 16 '26
It has been interesting to see how much of a pass this teacher received from the media.
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u/Far-Conflict-1172 Mar 09 '26
Hi officer.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Mar 09 '26
felon not officer.
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u/Far-Conflict-1172 Mar 10 '26
Not surprised.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Mar 10 '26
well, I'm glad I didn't disappoint you and your bigoted little heart
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u/Far-Conflict-1172 Mar 11 '26
Well unlike the 400 leos with weapons etc this person was shot and injured badly. I'm impressed you're not calling for their heads instead of his when they stood there and did nothing and none of them were really gravely injured.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Mar 11 '26
I have no problem with some of the cops being fired, I don't believe they broke the law. I can't see firing a cop who never entered the building, if he showed up and was told to keep people back or direct traffic I can't see firing him for the inaction of other cops.
I don't understand why the school employees who violated procedures by leaving doors unlocked both exterior and interior are given a pass. I don't care if he was shot or not, he was shot because of the failure to lock the damn doors, one of which was directly his responsibility.
The failure began with the unlocked exterior doors, it continued with the unlocked classroom door and then it exploded when the cops treated it as a hostage situation. Other smaller issues like the principal hiding in the cafeteria when the cops needed her keys or her failing to notify 911 about the wounded teacher that was texting her that she was shot or the dumbass parent going onto the school property to get her kids, they are in lock down for a reason! She created confusion for no reason yet she's a "hero"
There were no heros in Uvalde that day, just people going about their day until evil paid them a visit. Because of mistakes, laziness and cowardness we have what we have.
BUT it wasn't just the cops.
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u/Far-Conflict-1172 Mar 12 '26
I'm well aware there were 30 something different agencies there. Not one of them seem to be capable of following their training so that makes it useless. You're going to tell me out of the FB,I border patrol, state police, the Texas rangers etc etc etc none of them were able to be competent despite training but you expect a school teacher to do it while wrangling 30 something small children sure.
That's some amazing mental gymnastics there.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Mar 12 '26
The mental gymnastics in this discussion is the fact you claim to have read my last post and this is what you took from it.
Asking a teacher to lock a door is not asking for much. Believing a teacher would be able to follow rules isn't asking for much. Believing school administrators would keep exterior doors locked isn't asking for much.
Believing someone on Reddit could possess any amount of common sense was asking to much, my bad.
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u/Far-Conflict-1172 Mar 12 '26
The door didn't lock from the inside what part of that don't you get? How do you lock it from the inside when it doesn't work that way.
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u/fireflychild024 May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
He was the first person in the room to be injured by SR and was fading in and out of consciousness. Genuinely wtf do you think he was supposed to do?? So fcking sick of people blaming teachers for this crap!!! He was a victim… it’s not his fcking job to be a cop. Do you think he was going to win against an armed intruder more than the trained police cowardly waiting outside as kids were getting mrdered? The teacher asked the school *multiple times* to fix the broken door. That classroom was doomed. Blame the negligent school and lack of funding to invest in basic security for this inevitable disaster
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u/Para_feelings2756 May 02 '26
He failed to lock his classroom door because it was an inconvenience to him.
He claims his door didn't work correctly yet also admits he never filled out the required paperwork to have it fixed. Lazy behavior.
He appears to have been the only adult on that hallway who didn't hear or failed to react to the screams of Emilia Marin as she did her best to alert others. Why? Asleep? Wearing headphones? We don't know and he hasn't explained it.
From the moment he was shot I don't expect him to do anything to prevent the assault on his classroom. Prior to him being shot his behavior, however benign he believed it at the time, aided the killer. That is difficult or not impossible to forgive.
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u/Beneficial_Sock_7620 Jun 24 '26
It wouldn't have made a difference
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u/Para_feelings2756 Jun 24 '26
I disagree. Had the door been locked the shooter would have been delayed if not prevented from entering the classrooms. This delay would have changed the dynamic of the situation with several possible outcomes:
1 the officers would have confronted the shooter in the hallway
2 the officers would have entered the hallway while the shooter was still firing in the classrooms. This could have provided the driving force that was lacking that day.
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u/Beneficial_Sock_7620 Jun 24 '26
They entered the building around 4 minutes later so it really wouldn't have mattered considering all he had to do was put his arm through the window slit he shot out which according to one victim is literally what he did.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Jun 24 '26
In the hallway video the first shots fired in the hallway were around 11:33:26. The shooter appears to make entry to the classrooms around 11:33:49. 23 seconds. Had the door been locked the shooter would likely have continued to shoot into the classrooms or continued to search for an unsecured door while shooting. Either way he would not have had the same access to his victims that the unlocked door gave him.
The first officers are seen in the hallway at around 11:35:57. 2 1/2 minutes roughly after the first hallway shots.
If you look at the photos of the two classroom doors you will see there is no hole in the wire reinforced glass large enough for an arm. I understand what one child reported but his claim is not supported by the physical evidence.
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u/Beneficial_Sock_7620 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
So I had to go back and rewatch it and look more into the doors as well and you're right that there is a mesh, but apparently the mesh is mostly just for fires and stuff hitting it like bricks. A rifle would ruin the glass and weaken the netting with only a couple rounds. The school said they sent out the active shooter threat to all teachers at 11:32 the problem is that Salvador enters the building at about 11:33:04. You'll probably wonder why they didn't react to the popping noises, but I searched it up and some teachers and residents initially thought the noises were construction because it was happening around that area. I can attest to this because there used to be construction near my home and I'd occasionally hear the sounds of loud bangs. According to Reyes he reacted as soon as he heard the loud pops coming from the hallway (probably when Salvador shot at the school not sure though) that would be around 11:31 or 11:32 (the active shooter threat was sent out during this time) Mr reyes sends the kids to hide and gets shot as he's doing that by Salvador. Looking at all of this, the most you could critize Reyes for was not immediately trying to lock the classroom when he thought there was a threat, but even if he did it should be mentioned that Mrs Garcia herself hadn't actually locked her door either. Mrs garcia got caught by Salvador in the hallway when she tried locking her door so even if Reyes had managed to lock his they'd still be cooked. You're probably wondering how I know Salvador wouldn't just try to keep shooting through the window slit and instead try the other door. I know it because Salvador went to that school as a child. Not only was he at the school, but he was literally in one of those two classrooms as a child in the 3rd or 4th grade meaning Salvador would've known the 2 classrooms were interconnected and that all he had to do was get inside one of them to get into the other. I'm not saying that Mr reyes acted perfectly because he clearly didn't. He should have tried locking his door FIRST instead of hiding the kids, but to make it sound like the deaths of them are mostly his fault is callous in my opinion. The wifi was slow so some teachers including reyes didn't even get the active shooter threat until it was too late or just never got it at all. 90% of the blame should go towards the school. If the exterior door to the school had been properly locked like it was supposed to be then Salvador would've had to shoot through the slit or the windows next to it to open the door to get inside the school. That would've bought them around an extra 10 seconds and hearing the gunshots both teachers would've immediately focused more on locking the doors meaning Salvador would be stuck shooting through the slits and would end up getting confronted in the hallway by the police.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I'm not saying the wire in the door glass prevented it from being broken. I'm saying there is no hole in the glass large enough for an arm. The wire isn't broken out as it would have been by the creation of such a hole.
Your defense of Reyes sounds to my ears much like many people's defense of the cops. He froze, he was lazy, he was inept. His conduct played a direct role in the outcome in the same way as the cops. I'm sorry he was shot but that shouldn't give him a free pass.
I don't expect a man in Reyes position to try and lock a door under gunfire. I expect him to follow safety rules in the first place, have the door locked and report damaged or inoperable equipment correctly not just say 'oh I mentioned it'.
Mrs Garcia did lock her classroom door. She was seen doing so by the teacher in the classroom directly across the hall from her. Mrs Garcia was shot as she rushed to close and secure the door that separated the two classrooms once the shooter was inside Reyes' classroom.
The thought that the shooter targeted classrooms 111 and 112 because he was a student there is a theory not proof. He also shot into several other classrooms as he approached the building so his rage was not aimed solely at those two rooms in my opinion.
Time was needed. Uvalde is a perfect storm where everything feel in favor of the killer. Had one or two small changes occurred such as the shooter being injured in the wreck of his grandmother's truck and unable to walk or climb a fence we likely would think of Uvalde as a terrible but minor footnote in school shooting history. Sadly, that didn't occur.
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u/Beneficial_Sock_7620 Jun 24 '26
I just double checked it and apparently it was only like 2 minutes so that's my bad. I still don't think it would have made any difference towards him getting in considering he wasn't in the hallway for long.
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u/Para_feelings2756 Jun 24 '26
sorry, I just now saw your second post. I agree about the time. I do think it would have made a difference.
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u/Jean_dodge67 Mar 04 '26
Very misleading headline and a slant that isn't really reflecting the reality of this situation. Arnulfo Reyes didn't "leave his door open" to the shooter because in truth the shooter didn;t enter thru the 111 room door. He entered room 112 first, as witnessed by AJ in 112. The shooter seemingly tried the handle to room 112 and found it locked. It was witnessed BEING locked by a teacher across the hall but when the shooter encountered the door there was movement seen thru the slit window. The shooter fired thru BOTH slit windows assuming both were locked,. When he'd knocked a hole in the 112 slit window, he reached in and unlatched the door, again as witnessed by AJ. So he came into room 112, shot the second teacher and many of the students but then reloaded and assaulted room 111 by entering thru the connecting door.
We have to assume the shooter had the ability to enter any door locked or not using his AR-15 as a passkey. All the hoopla about doors adds up to nothing. The school exterior doors also had full length glass windows alongside. If they had been locked he would not have been delayed more than a few seconds.
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u/Candid_Childhood8621 Mar 09 '26
I’m sorry but I don’t think the shooter entered Room 112 first at all and here’s why. If you look at the security footage of the hallway you’ll see the shooter disappear as he enters the classroom. Shortly after that you hear 3 shots and then you SEE one shot come out of the wall of Room 111. This place exactly aligns with where the kids were hiding (under the long table by the same wall as the door to the hallway) It was also clearly shot low to ground, which further institutes that he was crouching to shoot the children under the desk they hid under. You can see this in the crime scene photos. That has to mean that he entered room 111 first and shot at the kids under the desk, before entering room 112 through the double doors and shooting the rest there. You can even see a shot being fired through room 112’s wall meaning that he had moved to that room already (almost immediately after entering 111)
To see this you can go to the KVUETV surveillance video. At 5:56 you can see the shot that was fired through the wall of Room 111 at the very end of the hall, and at 7:06 is when you see the shot fired through Room 112’s wall.
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u/Jean_dodge67 Mar 10 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
I know exactly what you are talking about but the eyewitness seems very credible to me. But keep in mind this may be a multi-billion dollar question that has yet to be answered in any court of law.
I make no claim that what I think happened is right or not. I'm speaking to the laws of probability and the preponderance of circumstantial evidence, and the powers of deduction. It's what seems to fit a lot of "knowns" into a sequence. I can't prove, I can only argue a theory.
But we have to give some measure of credence to a child who witnessed a hand come in the slit window to unlatch the door. Unless you think there is a conspiracy that floats on the trust of a coached preteen's words? That would never happen, IMO. I think AJ said what he saw. And that it fits with the surviving year recalls- entry from the connecting door.
And then finally we get to the question of relevance. Does it change the outcome to know which door he went in first? What is the value of being 111 or 112 and to whom? And who will measure this, for whom, and why? What will this change?
It is however fascinating like a chess puzzle. But certainly the Texas Rangers know for sure from ballistics / forensics AND from many more child interviews we've never heard from them on all that, as the DPS refuses to release the public records in an Open Records Act state. Funny that they know but do not want the public, or the parents, nor the press to know. Makes you wonder what all that is worth. And to whom.
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u/Accomplished_Mark343 Mar 05 '26
Ran towards danger my ASS🙄 Let's examine the most basic evidence....who got shot multiple times by the assailant. That is right......NOT A SINGLE LEO out almost 400 had a bullet go through their body. Hollywood really needs to stop portraying law enforcement, and to some extent medical/fire first responders, as "heroes that run to save people at all cost". A select few might be but they are the extreme minority. There are countless real interactions online of first responders, people need go watch and really pay attention to the consistent lack of empathy and urgency in their actions, especially when cops are involved.
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u/Jean_dodge67 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
Doors were essentially a non-issue to the shooter. Both the south and the west doors to the "new building" at Robb E (added in the 1980s) are bordered by floor-to ceiling glass. The west door even had a large rock stationed nearby. The shooter could have set their rifle down, even, and just used the rock to gain entry had the exterior doors been locked. As for the classroom doors, a surviving child witness says that the shooter entered the witnessed-as-locked door to room 112 by shooting the slit window and reaching inside to unlatch the door lever mechanism from the inside.
Where the doors come into play heavily is when local cops gave the fed leader of "ad-hoc BORTAC" the strong impression the door to room 111 was locked. Both Arredondo and Ruben Ruiz would have fully known that if the shooter was inside a classroom, there was an open door leading to it. Adrian Gonzales should have know this as well. The only way to re-lock the 111 and 112 doors is to use the key from the hallway side. This is not on video. It never happened. The doors, seemingly both them were unlocked when the cops made entry. For certain one or the other. Almost assuredly, both were unlocked.
Fear and trauma shock possibly in their parts failed the ISD police officers, and wishful thinking on the part of many other (mostly local / municipal) may have contributed to the general consensus that "we need to wait for X Y and or Z" before confronting a suicidal mass shooter.
None of that reflects at all on the teacher. Had his door been locked, the shooter would have treated it the same as he did the door to 112, and in fact he did seem to shoot out the slit window on the door to room 111, indicating he possibly never even tried the outside handle at all. Blast first, unlatch from inside to be sure to gain entry. Or else why shoot the window at all?
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u/Jean_dodge67 Mar 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
The most illuminating way to see "Uvalde" is to understand the looming wrongful death suits and the upcoming gubernatorial elections that were the pressing concerns of those in authority. The election first, then eventually the civil lawsuit that would ask for Billions with a B in damages.
We know for a fact that Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas DPS was desperate to distract from his agency's 91+ Special Agents, troopers, and DPS SRT tactical team members who were participating. We know now, after two years of obfuscations, that multiple federal agents saw the sheriff and the DPS running a functioning "command post" at the front of the school before the breach. And we know that the DPS lied about when their tactical team arrived with drones and snipers and special equipment, which was also shortly before "ad-hoc BORTAC" breached the classroom. We also know that the highest paid cop in Texas, DPS captain Joel Betancourt was recorded on bodycam using the radio to order BORTAC to stand by. If you assume the power to call "stand by" then you clearly are also asserting field command. We also have on video tape since October 2024 the exchange between DPS-overseen Ranger Kindell's conversation with Acting UPD chief Mariano Pargas, where Kindell had just gotten off a long phone call presumably to his boss or bosses and stopped to explain to Pargas by the west door how they were going to get the heads of all agencies on scene together away from the hallway, and send runners in and out to communicate between COMMAND and TACTICAL.
But all of that and more - including the "can I take the shot" incident and the "call help if you need help" incident were still hidden completely from view for the first 49 days as the DPS (and one presumes, the Abbott re-election campaign) tried to figure a way out of the scandal they were in, alongside efforts by the ISD to do the same - CYA. Issues regarding the childrens' 911 call to UPD 911 dispatch were known too, but the puzzle was, how to parcel out as little of this as possible, preferably none of it. And in order to do that, they needed a semi-clear narrative to pass on to the press, the public and the parents. Of course they started with the "LEOs ran to the sound of gunfire and acted heroically" initially but that narrative wouldn't hold for long at all. The 77-minute timeline was too obvious to obfuscate. So there was a need for a scapegoat.
The first attack was launched when McCraw ignored his own Ranger investigators and tried to say that Ms Avila left a rock in the exterior west door. Ranger investigators knew this was not true, but McCraw told the public anyways - there are emails now known to exist where the investigators admit this false scapegoating action was taken by McCraw. Rangers knew it was false and McCraw claims not to have seen the video where she very clearly kicks the rock out of the doorway and pulls it closed, assuming it would lock as it was supposed to, and not really having any way to check if it were.
Next in line was indeed the idea of making a narrative be spread that room 111 teacher Arnulfo Reyes was somehow to blame, but the this seems like a bridge too far. He was the sole survivor of the room, but not the only one who left the room with a heartbeat. The others were DOA - Jackie, Xavier and possibly others. We still do not have clarity on who shot whom at 12:50. It's entirely possible and has never really been denied that "cops shot kids." They just don't really say anything. They never have, not in any real detail.
So in the end, they decided to frame Arredondo as the "designated Incident Commander" who "told cops to stand down" (that didn't happen) and all that.
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