The past of bullying and the classroom has become a death trap: everything to know about the massacre at a Texas school

Uvalde, the small town in Texas, near the Mexican border, mourned Wednesday after a teenager killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school, in the last spasm of the gun violence epidemic in the United States. Amid the pain of the families, thrilling new details emerge.

Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old attacker and resident of Uvalde, killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robbel Elementary School. Everything they took refuge in a classroom, which became a death trap. there are dead men between 7 and 10 years.

The attacker was buried in the classroom where the boys sought refuge with two teachers, who unleashed the massacre. He also shot officers as they tried to enter the building, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez, on CNN and on the show “Today”.

That was the school shooting most deadly since 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, 10 years ago.

They died in the attack teachers Eva Mireles and Irma García, according to US media. More than a dozen men were injured.

Ramos is armed with many weapons and shot dead by police at the scene, Lt. said. Olivarez on the show “Today”. A 66-year-old woman told authorities the teenager’s grandmother was shot at her home in Uvalde shortly before the massacre and in critical condition on Wednesday.

University Health, a San Antonio hospital, said Wednesday that a 10-year-old girl was taken to the hospital in critical condition after a school shooting. has improved, and now he is in serious condition. A 9 year old girl and a 10 year old girl. They were also hospitalized and are in good condition.

Acquaintances said Ramos, who attended high school in the neighborhood, he often missed class and had few friends.

Robb Elementary is located in a rural area with desert willows and jagged maple in Uvalde, a town founded in 1853 near the Mexican border. Census data shows that more than 40 percent of people in the neighborhood around the school live in the same house for at least 30 years.

One fact that adds even more drama is that, with the advent of boreal summer, the school year is over. This Thursday is the last day of school.

The school district’s calendar for summer vacation is already listed after school tennis and fine arts programs.

But instead of summer plans, parents faced the unthinkable on Tuesday, waiting hours for the frightening confirmation of their children’s fate, some of whom provided DNA samples to test your relationship.

Sobbing could be heard outside the civic center, which was used as a makeshift reunification center. Some had difficulty walking back to their vehicles after receiving the news.

On Wednesday, steps were seen from Robb Elementary School FBI agents touring the area, knocking on almost every perimeter door.

On Wednesday morning, a large number of law enforcement officers at all levels, local, state and federal, they are still processing the heinous crime scene at the school. Publishers from all over the country covered the street next to the school.

a lonely town

“This town is heartbroken, devastated,” said Adolfo Hernandez, whose nephew was at Robb Elementary School on the hunt Tuesday in Uvalde, a small community about 80 miles from the city of San Antonio.

“Things like that don’t happen here,” he said. “You just want to pinch yourself and wake up to this scary nightmare.”

Out of grief and anger, President Joe Biden addressed the nation in the hours after the attack, calling on lawmakers to accept the strong gun lobby and enforce tougher laws to curb gun violence.

“As a nation, we need to ask ourselves when, for God’s sake, let’s go to the gun lobby. When, for God’s sake, are we going to do what we all know inside of us that needs to be done? ”Biden said, overcome with emotion.

In Uvalde, police blocked the area around the school on Wednesday and there was little traffic or pedestrian movement. The neighborhood consists of simple one -story houses with a small patio. In many gardens, you will find hammocks and outdoor grills for barbecues.

More details

According to Texas Department of Public Safety officials, Ramos he shot his grandmother before heading to Robb Elementary School around noon, where he left his vehicle and entered carrying a pistol and rifle. He was wearing a bulletproof vest.

In the course of events, Ramos first shot his grandmother, crashed into a car near the school and then barricaded the classroom and shot students and teachers, a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman said.

Local police then received a call about a damaged car and an individual with a gun entering the school, Lt. Col. Chris Olivarez on NBC.

“School officials and state police came first. They heard gunshots from the classroom and tried to enter, but they were met by gunfire from the shooter. Some of them were shot, ”he said.

“They started breaking the windowstrying to evacuate children and teachers.

Local officials, as well as state troopers, eventually made their way into the classroom, he said.

They were also met by gunfire, but they were able to shoot and kill the suspect, ”he said.

Olivarez said Ramos use a long platform-type rifleis equipped with “lots of bullets” and wore a tactical vest, a form of body armor.

She lives with her grandparents I am unemployed.

A past of abuse

bouquets, who stutters and has a lispwas bullied at school because of his speech problems, and sometimes he cut his face “Just for fun,” Santos Valdez, who had known him before, told The Washington Post.

Valdez said he was friends with Ramos, but when the young man began to “break” link ended.

A few days before the attack, Ramos, who attended a local high school, gave hints that he had a plan by sending pictures of the weapons to his friends and chatting with a girl until a few hours before the attack.

Police who rushed to the scene killed the culprit, authorities said.

In 2022, in the United States there were more shootings (in which four or more people were injured or killed) than in days this year, according to the NGO Gun Violence Archive, which recorded 213 such incidents.

Si Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook shooting took place, has made an enthusiastic call for concrete steps to prevent further violence.

“It’s inevitable, these children are not unlucky. It only happens in this country and nothing elseMurphy said on the Senate floor in Washington.

Despite repeated mass shootings, many initiatives to reform gun regulations have failed in the U.S. Congress, leaving it to state and local governments to tighten, or relax, their own restrictions.

Clarín newsroom with information from local media and AFP

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