( Observer Network ) On the 24th local time, a large-scale shooting occurred in a primary school in Texas, USA, killing 19 primary school students and 2 adults, shocking the whole of the United States.
As the details of the case continue to be disclosed, according to US media, onlookers at the scene kept urging the police to rush into the school at the time of the incident, and the parents of the children who were quickly accused the police of not taking action as soon as possible to stop the gunman. "There are at least 40 policemen who are fully armed, but they did nothing, (until) it was too late." According to US media, the gunman stayed in school for more than 40 minutes before being shot dead by law enforcement officers.
AP : Onlookers urge police to storm into a school in Texas
This deadliest campus shooting in the United States occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, southern Texas. The suspect's name is Salvador Ramos, 18 years old, a student at Uvalde High School.
According to the Associated Press on the 26th, the gunman stayed in school for at least 40 minutes until he was shot dead by the tactical team. During this period, onlookers kept urging police to rush into the school building.
24-year-old Juan Carranza lives across the street from Rob Elementary School. Shortly after the attack began, he saw nearby women outside the house shouting to police outside the school, "Go in! Go in!" Carranza said that the police did not go in.
A few minutes ago, Carranza saw gunman Ramos driving a truck into a ditch outside the school, then grabbed the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and shot two people outside a nearby funeral home. Fortunately, the two escaped in time and were not injured.
According to Texas officials, Ramos also encountered a school district security official outside the school and fired a shot at him. It is not clear whether the security official fired at Ramos. Ramos then ran into the school building and shot two policemen who rushed outside the building, and the two policemen were injured. Afterwards, Ramos rushed into a classroom, locked the door, and began shooting at the children and teachers in the classroom.
Suspicion gunman Salvador Ramos
"They have a lot of people, and he only has one," said Carranza, who believes the police should have rushed into the school early.
is not the only one who has such an idea. Javier Cazares, a parent of the student, said he rushed to the school after hearing the shooting, when police were still gathering outside the school.
Casares looked anxiously at the police standing outside her daughter's school, feeling uneasy that the police had not entered the school yet. He then proposed to rush into the school building with several other onlookers. "Let's rush in because the police aren't doing what they should do," Casares said, who told other onlookers at the time.
"We could have done more," Casares told the Associated Press, accusing the police of "they were unprepared." In the shooting, Casares' 10-year-old daughter Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares was tragically killed.
It is worth mentioning that after seeing the Associated Press' report on Casares, Matt Novak, a senior writer of the famous American technology website Gizmodo, shared a video on Twitter and wrote: "This video makes more sense now. The police really stop parents from helping their children."
Then, Novak also attached a full version of the video from the social media intelligence agency Storyful News, and tweeted that the police with long guns not only took out Taser , preparing to stop parents from saving their children. It seems that the police also pressed one of the parents to the ground. From the video, you can hear a person shouting: "What did you do to him? Let him get up!"
. Casares also pointed out in an interview with ABC (ABC) that the police outside the school were fully armed, but did not take action as soon as possible to stop the gunman.
"There were at least 40 policemen who were fully armed, but they did nothing, (until) it was too late," Casares told the ABC, who believed the police could have prevented the incident from escalating."If they had better tactical training, the situation might end soon, and these of us have witnessed it firsthand." Jacklyn's cousin, 10-year-old Annabell Rodriguez, also died in the shooting, according to the ABC.
Parent Javier Casares believes that the police could have prevented the incident from escalating
10-year-old Jacklyn Jaylene Casares was unfortunately killed
According to Lieutenant Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Public Safety Department, Lieutenant Christopher Olivarez told CNN on the 25th that all the victims were in the same classroom, and the police were at a disadvantage because the gunman locked himself in it.
He told CNN: "There was not enough manpower at the time, and their first priority was to prevent any further loss of life." It was not until a tactical team of local and federal officials arrived, "forced into the classroom" and killed the gunman.
But at the same time, a law enforcement official who knew the investigation told the Associated Press that the tactical team could not break through the classroom door at first and had to let a staff member open the classroom with a key. The official asked to be anonymous because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.
According to Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, it has been 40 minutes to an hour from the time the gunman Ramos shot at school district security personnel to the tactical team shooting him. Although a department spokesman later said they could not give an exact estimate of how long the gunman stayed in school or when he was killed.
"The bottom line is that law enforcement is there," McLeo said. "They did step in immediately. They did contain (Ramos) in the classroom."
According to CNN, the shooting was the second deadly shooting in the US K-12 schools since the 2 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in in 2012. In the previous Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 20 children and 6 adults were killed. According to CNN statistics, this is at least the 30th shooting at K-12 schools in 2022. If the university campus shootings are also counted, this is at least the 39th, with the previous shootings killing at least 10 people and injuring 51 people.
U.S. President Biden said on the 225th that he will visit Yuvaldi soon and said he is "tired" by the frequent gun violence.
"We must ask: In the name of God, when will we do what we need to do, and if we cannot completely stop, how can we fundamentally change the number of massacres happening in this country... I feel tired, I am tired of what is happening and will continue to happen."
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