Salvador Ramos spent more than 40 minutes at the Uvalde school in which he shot and killed 21 people, 19 of them children. The attacker entered through the back door of the building and was not killed until an hour after the killing began.
Some parents of the minors arrived at the school gates even before the specialized tactical units of the American police did.
There, in front of the scene, they heard the shots without being able to do anything about it. His screams and cries of pain, chilling, were collected in some videos recorded by passers-by and collected by Al Rojo Vivo in the main video of this news.
Thus they increase the criticism of police action during the massacre, after the local authorities recognized that the attacker entered the building without facing opposition. The impression that the police acted slowly or improperly It has been reinforced on social networks and among some residents of the Texas town, especially after the authorities confirmed that the attacker spent up to an hour barricaded in a classroom before being shot dead by officers.
The regional director for South Texas of the state Department of Public Safety, Víctor Escalón, clarified on Thursday that, contrary to what sources from the school district had indicated hours before, there was no confrontation between a security guard and the attacker, Salvador Ramos, when he entered primary school. “Is not true. He entered school unopposed“, stressed the state official, who also acknowledged that “apparently”, the lock of one of the doors of the center would be open when Ramos arrived, for reasons that are still being investigated.
Source: Lasexta
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