A lead screed covered the town of Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday, where residents were torn between mourning, fear and amazement the day after the massacre of 19 children and 2 teachers at an elementary school.
It was as if there was a black cloud hanging over the citya resident, Adolfo Hernandez, told AFP that the nephew who was in this establishment fell into fear and panic of an 18-year-old gunman, who was killed by police.
Things like this never happen here. So when we hear something like this, we want to pinch ourselves and wake up from this scary nightmare.he added, describing a city heartbroken, ruined.
The streets around the orphaned school were cordoned off Wednesday by police, who established a security perimeter. There was no vehicle traffic, few pedestrians and, aside from the presence of a lot of media and dozens of police, a sad calm reigned, AFP journalists said.
The day before, at noon, this small town of 16,000 residents was horrified when a gunman, identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, committed one of the deadliest murders in recent years in the United States.
The young man, who first targeted his grandmother, was seriously injured and hospitalized, then headed to Robb Primary School, where he collided with his vehicle.
Warning about the accident and the fact he was armed, security forces tried to prevent him from entering the school, but after an exchange of gunfire, he managed to barricade himself in a classroom, detailed Wednesday morning Chris Olivarez, spokesman for to Texas police, on the CNN channel.
There he killed 19 young students, the oldest of ten, and 2 teachers, before he was shot by police.
It shows you how cruel this shooter issaid Chris Olivarez.
More than a dozen children were also injured, according to information sent by hospitals in Texas, by a young man of American nationality wearing a paramilitary outfit.
He recently bought himself two assault rifles and 375 cartridges, in several installments just after his 18th birthday, according to CNN quoting a local elected official.
A former friend, Santos Valdez, told Washington Post that Salvador Ramos was bullied as a child because of his speech impediment, and he once cut off his face just for fun.
It only happens in the country
President Joe Biden, who was on his way home from a tour of Asia when the shooting happened, gave emotional statements from the White House on Tuesday night, calling take the pain into action.
” When, for God’s sake, will we face the gun lobby? “
He said to himself sick and tired in front of the litany of school hunts.
The Robb Elementary School neighborhood is inhabited by a middle class of Americans who live in small, simple, wooden, one story houses with small gardens where you can sometimes find a swing or barbecue. .
Robb School will remain closed until the summer holidays, at the behest of school authorities.
More than 500 children, nearly 90 percent of them Hispanic, were attending there during the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data.
The city of Uvalde said it collects donations to help pay for the treatment of the victims ’families.
American schools are regularly hit by these tragedies, such as at Sandy Hook elementary school, which occurred in 2012 in Connecticut, in which a 20-year-old mentally retarded man killed 26 people, including the 20 children aged 6 to 7, before committing suicide. .
It only happens in this country, and nothing else. In no other country do children study on the assumption that they can be shotthe Democratic senator of this state in the northeastern United States, Chris Murphy, was transferred on Tuesday, who begged his appointed colleagues to act.
America was also particularly marked by the shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people, most of them teenagers, in 2018.
This new assassination will surely rekindle criticism of the proliferation of guns in the United States, a debate that is almost empty due to the despair that Congress will pass an ambitious national law. In question.
Source: Radio-Canada
