Timeline

3am - Roberts finishes his night shift and returns in darkness to his home in nearby Bart township

7:30am - Roberts is up helping his wife get their children ready for school

8:45am - the couple walks the children to their yellow school bus, a neighbour says ‘it was unusual to see Roberts on a Monday’’

9:00am - Roberts hugs and kisses his children and tells them ‘’remember, daddy loves you’’

10:25am - Roberts enters the school house

10:30am - Roberts reappears with a hand gun

10:31am - He orders the male students to help him

10:32am - The teacher and her mother escape

10:34am - Roberts and the young boy carry utensils into the room

10:35am - The teacher and mother arrive at the farm

10:36am - Amos Smoker places a 911 call. Roberts barricades the doors

10:37am - Roberts orders the girls in a line

10:39am - He allows everyone to leave except the girls shouting
‘’Stay here do not move , you will be shot’’

10:40am - Emma Fisher escapes because she does not understand english.

10:41am - First troopers arrive at the scene.

10:41am - A second caller reports the incident and is being transferred to the state police.

10:55am - Roberts binds and ties the girls.

10:56am - The girls are lined up in front of the blackboard.
Mrs Roberts returns home finding suicide notes.

10:57am - Roberts makes a call to his wife and the police

10:58am - Mrs Roberts calls 911 after arriving home from a prayer study group meeting

11am - A large crowd assembles outside.

11am - Two girls begin negotiating with Roberts

11:07am - Roberts shoots the girls and then himself.

11:08am - Troopers approach.