It turned out that Salvador Ramos had talked about his intentions online to a 15-year-old living in Frankfurt: “I’m going to shoot in an elementary school,” he wrote to her. In the previous days, Ramos had told the girl that ammunition had arrived. Meanwhile, the investigators are trying to understand why 40 to 60 minutes passed before the intervention of the police. Parents of the victims: “More could have been done”
Details continue to emerge about the Uvalde, Texas massacre, where an 18-year-old opened fire in an elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers. It turned out that the killer, Salvador Ramos, had confided his intentions via chat to a 15-year-old living in Frankfurt. as CNN writes. “I’m going to shoot in an elementary school” she wrote to her, adding that she “just shot my grandmother in the head”. According to reports from Texas police, Ramos’ grandmother “is alive and in stable condition”. In the previous days, Ramos had told the girl that ammunition had arrived. Meanwhile, the investigators are trying to understand why 40 to 60 minutes passed before the intervention of the police: some witnesses told the Associated Press that the agents were urged by a “frustrated crowd” to enter the elementary school where Ramos was carrying out the massacre. The White House has said that President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill will go to Uvalde on Sunday May 29 and meet the families of the victims. Instead today, surprisingly, Meghan Markle visited the victims’ memorial: accompanied by a bodyguard, white t-shirt, tennis shoes, jeans and a baseball hat, Prince Harry’s wife laid a bouquet of white roses at the makeshift memorial set up nearby. to the place of the massacre.
The anger of the parents: “The agents did not enter immediately”
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Javier Cazares, whose 8-year-old daughter Jacklyn was killed in the attack, said he rushed to school when he learned of the shooting and police were still outside the building when he arrived. Shocked, he proposed to enter himself: “We could have done more, they were unprepared.” “Come in, come in!”, Shouted some women standing next to the police after the attack began, according to 24-year-old Juan Carranza, who witnessed the scene from his home, across the street from to the school. A few minutes earlier, Carranza said he saw the gunman end up with his pickup truck in a ditch outside the school, grab his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and shoot two people outside a nearby funeral home.
Police: “Special teams arrived after an hour”
Special teams from the Border Patrol Tactical Unit arrived at Uvalde Elementary School “an hour after” the killer entered and killed him, Texas police said in a press conference about the massacre, essentially confirming media rumors. about the timing of the surgery but without explaining why it took them so long. Local police and school security guards “came in after four minutes. They heard gunshots, did some reconnaissance and then took cover,” the director general said.
The cops did not implement post Columbine protocol
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The policemen who were in elementary school when Salvador Ramos arrived did not intervene immediately, as required by the protocol imposed in 1999 after the Columbine massacre. This was underlined by several analysts al Washington Post, while questions about the slow response of the police continue to rise. Prior to the Colorado high school massacre, when two teenagers killed 12 students and a teacher, cops were trained to respond to an armed assailant by “introducing themselves, circumscribing an area and waiting for the Swat to arrive,” special teams explained. the experts. But after Columbine the agents have a duty to respond as soon as possible because, it is the assumption, “every second that passes is more lives that go away”. For years now, the protocol has been this: the first armed agents on the scene must find the attacker and kill him, without waiting for reinforcements to arrive. According to a policeman who spoke to ABC, the policemen were unable to open the door of the classroom where Ramos had barricaded himself and had to get help from a janitor with the key.
Police: “Killer did not meet guard outside school”
Ramos “was not confronted by anyone” outside the school, Texas Police Director General Victor Escalon said, denying press reports that the killer had had a “confrontation” with a school guard. “He hasn’t met anyone from his grandmother’s house to the school. He has entered the building without obstacles,” he stressed.
An armed student arrested in Texas
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Meanwhile, Texas police arrested a student armed with a pistol and rifle outside a high school in Richardson, 560km north of Uvalde. A witness alerted the police. The weapons were found in his car. The young man was accused of carrying an illegal gun in a ‘weapon-free’ school area.
