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A mother entered the Uvalde school during the shooting and took her children out


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The police response to the massacre in Uvalde (Texas) has outraged relatives such as Junior Cazares, whose little cousin Jacklyn was murdered while the police waited more than an hour outside the classroom where the attacker barricaded himself.

“I hope they lose their license,” said Cazares, who spoke to Efe in front of the wooden crosses installed in the central square of Uvalde to remember the 19 children and two teachers brutally murdered in Tuesday’s shooting at Robb Elementary School.

The revelation, this Friday, that the Police made the decision not to enter the classroom and I waited to receive a key to open the doorwhile a desperate girl called the emergency services surrounded by her dead classmates, has shocked the American town.

“I can’t even imagine those kids locked in that room, knowing there were cops out therea. He is disgusting,” said Cazares, 24.

The young man works in a hospital where they have hospitalized some of the 17 wounded in the attack and after learning that the police had acknowledged his negligent behavior in the face of the shooting, he went to the central square accompanied by his wife Lisa and their four-year-old daughter.

“I only feel anger. It makes me want to quit my job and become a police officer, so I can (…) do things better. They swore to protect our communityCazares emphasized.

“WE KNOW ALL CHILDREN”

Her cousin, Jacklyn, was a relative or friend of several of the girls who died, including Ellie Garciawho used to play with the daughter of Junior and Lisa Cazares.

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We know each of these children (murdered)it is a small community and we share our love with each one of them”, assured the young man.

His wife, Lisa, was outraged when she recalled how many parents came to the school while the attacker was inside to try to rescue his children and implored the Police to act.

“As far as they were quick is to arrest the parents who tried to break intor”, denounced Lisa Cazares, who thought that if the children of the policemen had been inside, “things would have been different”.

Cazares was apparently referring to the brief arrest of Angeli Rose Gomezwho, after driving 40 miles to the school upon learning there was an attacker inside, berated the officers to they will enter the school and handcuffed her.

Then I convinced the agents to release her, jumped the school fence and entered the school to rescue his two sons, who they were not in the classroom affected by the shooting and that he managed to get out of school, according to Gómez told The Wall Street Journal.

AN “WRONG” ANSWER

The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Steven McCraw, has acknowledged that not breaking down the door of the classroom was a “wrong decision” and blamed her on the highest police officer who was at the school at the time.

Several media assured this Saturday that the person in charge was Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the Uvalde School District Police Chiefwho has not appeared in press conferences on the situation for several days.

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According to McCraw, after hearing multiple shots in the classroom and considering that the bullets were only headed for the door as the officers tried to gain accessthe aforementioned chief interpreted that there was no one left alive inside except the aggressor.

Therefore, they chose to wait, until finally a Border Patrol team entered the classroom behind a shield and the attacker, Salvador Ramos, came out of a class closet and started shooting at them, when he was shot dead, according to details of the investigation leaked to The Washington Post.

On the floor of the classroom, the agents found the children united, many of them already deceased, but some still alive, including Miah Cerrillo, 11, who smeared the blood of another student on the body to play dead.

Cerrillo, who still knows is recovering from the bullet fragments that hit his head and shoulders, told CNN that the attacker looked at one of the teachers, said “good night” and killed her, before shooting indiscriminately at the students in her class and those in another that was attached to her. through an internal door.

The girl assured that a friend and she they got hold of the dead teacher’s phone and they called the police, begging them to come, before lying down and playing dead for what seemed like an eternity.

WAITING FOR THE INVESTIGATION

The Governor of Texas, the Republican Greg Abbott, who initially praised the agents and said that they had “ran” towards the attacker, now claims to be “furious” for the negligence of the police and has promised a thorough investigation of their actions.

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In Uvalde, a population of barely 16,000 inhabitants with a Hispanic majority, where practically everyone knows someone affected by the shootingthe news has felt bad, but there are those who still do not dare to condemn the policemen too much.

“I don’t want to criticize them,” said Leti, who lives across the street from the school and told Efe how children from various classes “ran” into his garden during the attack and they spent a good time there, petting their cat and in many cases crying.

Leti does not like to speak ill of her neighbors, of the people who work in your citybut a part of her still doesn’t understand what happened.

“If the parents were willing to go in there, why (the police) not?I asked.

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