Texas Massacre: Farewell to 18-Year-Old Victims – Funeral Starts Today

He has sunk into mourning since massacre at Uvalde, Texas elementary school. Today, relatives and friends are expected to say goodbye to some of the victims as the children’s funerals begin.

The funerals of 19 children and two teachers killed on May 24 by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos will be completed by mid-June.

One of the first ceremonies will take place, as broadcast by the Athenian News Agency, citing AFP today at 14:00 (local time, 21:00 Greek time) for Ameri Joe Garca, a little girl who was celebrating her 10th birthday a day of the massacre.

“This little diva who hated dresses and had a big heart dreamed of becoming an art teacher,” says her family.

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Yesterday, Monday, relatives and strangers went to pay their respects to the little girl’s closed coffin at a funeral home located directly opposite the elementary school where she was going and where she was murdered.

The funeral of another victim, 10-year-old Maite Rodrεςguez, will take place at 19:00 (local time, 03:00 in the early hours of Wednesday Greek time). “The little girl, who wanted to become a marine biologist, was kind, charismatic, lovable,” her mother wrote on her Facebook page on Thursday. “And most of all, she was my best friend,” she added.

“This horrible and intense nightmare, from which I can not wake up, completely destroyed me,” he added.

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The residents of Uvalde are angry about the delayed reaction of the police

In addition to their great grief, the people of Uwalde, like many Americans, expressed their anger and lack of understanding of the delayed police responsewhich prompted even the authorities to admit their mistake.

Nineteen police officers remained in the hallway of Rob Elementary School without intervening for three quarters, while Ramos remained locked in a room with the students. Eventually the police entered and killed the perpetrator.

This tragedy, like the previous ones, brought back to the public debate the demand for a stricter framework for the possession of weapons.in a country where weapons are more than the population and where there are frequent incidents of mass shootings with many casualties.

US President Joe Biden, who went to Ovalde on Sunday, felt the anger of the residents first hand, when many shouted at him: “do something”.

The president must “pass laws so we can protect our children from AR-15s,” the semi-automatic weapon used in the massacre, said Robert Robles, 73.

Ricardo Garcia, 47, who worked at Uvalde Hospital on the day of the tragedy, said he could not “get the mothers screaming when we told them the bad news”.

Biden: Things have become very serious

Yesterday Monday (30/5) o Joe Biden pledged to “keep up the pressure” to adopt a stricter regulatory framework for firearms.

“There is no reason to buy something that can shoot up to 300 bullets,” he said.

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“I think things have gotten very serious, which makes all people more rational,” he said, speaking after another weekend in which another series of shootings took place. dead and wounded.

But it will be difficult to put it into words: the small majority of his party in Congress does not allow him to pass stricter gun laws.

In order for any bill to pass, there must be a compromise with Republicans, who have traditionally been reluctant to legislate on the issue.

Source: News Beast

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