In Uvalde, Texas, they face pain again. He carries a weight on his chest and it is difficult to imagine the last minutes of the lives of 19 students and two of their teachers, victims of an impressive shooting at an educational institution.

Robb Elementary School in Uvalde was the painful scene of death at the hands of a young man. It is also the name that summarizes the mistakes and contradictions of the police. The alleged lack of coordination and late reaction to such an event are not forgotten by the parents of the deceased.

Meanwhile, the uniformed took more than an hour to decide what to do, in a classroom a teacher was erected as a human shield. He wanted to give his life to save his students. The Uvalde massacre left its worst balance, but also the heroic example of Irma García, who taught for more than 20 years.

A year after this carnage, in which, as CNN en Español recalls, they ended the lives of boys and girls who dreamed of becoming lawyers, biologists, police officers or dancers, the answers are not enough to ease the pain . worse, they may never be.

A brave girl tried to call 911 for help and a teacher used her body as a shield for her students before she was killed in the Texas shooting that killed 22

Uvalde’s archer

Salvador Ramos. This is how the 18-year-old boy was identified, who killed schoolchildren between the ages of 7 and 11.

Before storming into Robb Elementary School with an assault rifle, he took the time to state what he intended to do.

Ramos, EFE reported a year ago, posted photos of his guns to Instagram and sent a message to a stranger suggesting he was planning an attack.

But before committing the massacre, Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother and before entering the educational institution, he crashed a car.

By the time the police managed to kill him, it was too late. Painfully late. Then the shocking details of the nightmare that lived in the classroom became known.

Came in and kind of crouched down and said, said it’s time to die

A survivor related what was done and said by Ramos

frustrated and hurt

“I am angry and frustrated because everything is the same, nothing has changed, nothing has been done,” Sandra Torres, mother of Eliahna Cruz Torres, one of the girls killed, told EFE on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.

Error after error seems to have been made… Three local police officers, CNN tells in Spanish, were the first to enter the school after the shooter. They were armed with two guns.

Colonel Steven McCraw “blamed the incident commander, Uvalde Schools Police Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, for the delay.”

Arredondo, who was fired from his position three months later, “told investigators he was more concerned with rescuing students in other classrooms than stopping a gunman who had already shot children and teachers. But he has said that he did not consider himself the commander of the incident on May 24, 2022,” the American chain explained.

For the parents of Alithia, who was 10 years old, hearing a siren, seeing a police car eases the pain. They had that feeling every day in Uvalde and they decided to go to another city.

Jessica and Ryan Ramírez, the parents, hold hugs and drawings of the girl, they told BBC Mundo.

In the media they describe what they feel: “Rage”.

“It is inexplicable to them that 376 well-armed, uniformed officers stood in a corridor outside Alithia’s room for 77 minutes while the perpetrator killed the children, before deciding to break down the door and neutralize the police.” It.

The bullets are not silent

The carnage changed and mourned all in Texas. Many doors of the houses of Uvalde, a town of 15,000 inhabitants, have “Uvalde Strong” (Uvalde Force) signs, according to EFE. “Little things have changed in the past 12 months, with many families of the deceased children becoming activists for stronger gun control.”

It’s not just Texas that suffers. Mass shootings have become commonplace in the United States, with at least 199 so far in 2023, the most at this point in the year since at least 2016, according to the Gun Violence Archive, published by The Voice of America.

On May 8, after an attack on a Texas mall, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, again asked Congress to pass gun control laws. It doesn’t look easy or fast.