Nineteen children and two teachers dead because of the Cowards who swore to PROTECT and SERVE. We thought that after Sandy Hook there would only be one entrance, a secured entrance monitored by police or security guards who packed. But it appears that this is not the case in Texas, or for that matter in numerous school districts throughout the nation. What gives? What kind of training did the security officers have. How did he get passed them? Even Barney Fife would have shot the punk in a split second, but not these two.
But one parent took matters into his own hands; barged the school and brought his daughter to safety.
Uvalde shooting: Texas school gunman ‘walked in unobstructed’
By Angelica Casas, Chelsea Bailey and Max Matza
BBC News, Uvalde and Seattle
The gunman who attacked a school in Texas on Tuesday was able to enter the building unobstructed, police say.
Texas Ranger Victor Escalon said no armed guard challenged the teenage attacker and it is unclear if the school door was even locked.
Mr Escalon defended the police response amid mounting criticism of an apparent delay in confronting the gunman.
Witnesses were quoted as saying police were hesitant to confront the killer inside Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School.
The attacker shot dead 19 students and two teachers, and injured at least 17 more people. Further tragedy struck two days later, when the husband of one of the murdered teachers died from a heart attack.
The latest details from police sharply contradict what was said at a news briefing two days ago. WTF!
UVALDE, Texas — Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.
“Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close-knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.
Javier Cazares, whose fourth grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still gathered outside the building.
Upset that police were not moving in, he raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.
“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he said. “More could have been done.”
“They were unprepared,” he added.
Minutes earlier, Carranza had watched as Salvador Ramos crashed his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and shot at two people outside a nearby funeral home who ran away uninjured.
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