Flowers in Uvalde, to remember the victims of the massacre. Photo by Reuters
Javier Cazares left a gun on his way to his daughter’s school when he heard there was a shooting in Uvalde, Texas, left his truck running with the door open before running into the school yard. In his haste, he forgot to bring his gun.
Cazares, an Army veteran, spent the next ordeal of 35 to 45 minutes avoiding children fleeing from Robb Elementary School. looking for his 9 -year -old daughter, Jacklyn.
At the same time, he wants to go in and find himself, and feels increasingly annoyed, along with the other parents, in fact the police are doing nothing to prevent the teenager from taking refuge in a classroom and killing children.
“A lot of us were arguing with the police:‘ You all need to get in there. Everyone has to do their job” ‘, Cazares recalled. “We’re ready to get down to business and hurry.”
In Uvalde, Texas, flowers to remember the victims. Photo by AFP
80 minutes
Eventually, 19 children and two teachers were shot to death in the approximately 80 minutes spent shooting inside a school in Uvalde, Texas. a small community predominantly Latino located in vegetable gardens in mid-San Antonio and the US-Mexico border.
This account of the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook School based on a timeline of order forces, recordings and numerous interviews with Uvalde residents in the hours and days after the massacre.
The male authority was identified as the attacker, Salvador Ramos, rose early on May 24, sending disturbing messages. Ramos was just 18 years old last week and immediately purchased two AR-15-style rifles along with hundreds of bullets.
At dawn in his grandparents ’shady neighborhood, just half a mile (800 meters) from the site of the massacre, Ramos wrote to a woman via Instagram: “I’m close’‘. He also posted a private message on Facebook saying he would shoot his grandmother.
Salvador Ramos, the author of the Uvalde massacre.
And within hours, it happened.
The shots
After 11 am, a neighbor was in his yard he heard a bang and looked in that direction. He saw Ramos run out the door of his grandparents’ house toward a pickup truck parked on the narrow street. The 18-year-old seemed scared and had trouble getting a Ford vehicle out of the parking lot, 82-year-old Gilbert Gallegos recalled.
Eventually Ramos got away, his wheels throwing a stream of gravel into the air. Moments later, her severely injured grandmother emerged from a one -story house, covered in blood.
“This is what he did”he shouted, Gallegos recalled. “He shot me.”
Gallegos’ wife called 911 as it carried the injured woman to their backyard. As they hid and waited for the police, They still heard a lot of gunshots.
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