Texas Massacre – New York Times: Children Still Alive as Police Wait to Enter School

Police officers of Uvalde at Texas waited for over an hour before raiding the two connected halls of Rob’s school where an 18-year-old gunman had been fortifiedalthough they knew there were children who were injured but still alive inside, the newspaper revealed on Thursday New York Times.

Based on videos, documents and other documents, the newspaper reported that tat least 12 of the 33 children all three members of the teaching staff in both rooms was still alive from the moment the fire started until the moment the men of the border guard invaded and killed Salvador Ramos, one hour and 17 minutes later.

The head of the school district police department was anxious, according to videos and other documents, about how long it would take his men to find protective equipment and find a key to the doors of the two halls, according to a Times report. «People will ask why we needed so much time“Someone believed to be Pete Arendo can be heard in a video from the camera worn by a police officer.

The May 24 attack on Uvalde, a small town in Hill County, west of San Antonio, cost the lives of 19 children and two teachers. This is most deadly gun attack inside a school committed in the last decade.

Always according to the Times, one of the teachers froze in an ambulance and three children died at the hospitals where they were treated.

This element, as reported by the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, raises questions about if their lives could have been saved if the police had intervened earlier.

Authorities admitted, though, several days before recognizing it, that 19 police officers waited for about an hour outside rooms 111 and 112 before the border guard intervention unit finally invaded and killed the gunman, a high school student armed with an assault rifle.

According to the authorities, Mr. Arendo decided to wait, not to immediately send the police to invade, because considered that the immediate threat to children had diminishedafter the initial storm of shots.

Two police officers were slightly injured by bullets fired by Salvador Ramos when they tried to reach one of the classrooms. No further attempt was made until about 40 minutes had elapsed.

Stephen McGraw, Texas Chief of Staff stressed that the decision of the police to wait was “the wrong decision”also admitting that at least two schoolgirls trapped inside made desperate phone calls, whispering, in immediate action – at 911 – begging for help.

It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post, according to the Times. However, the material gathered by the newspaper reveals that at some point they knew that not all the victims in the halls were dead.

Reuven Ruiz, one of the six uniformed men in Mr. Arendodo’s school police force, ran to tell his colleagues that his wife, Eva Mireles, had called him. she was injured but still alivethrough one of the rooms where the gunman invaded. She later succumbed to her injuries.

Mr. Arendo did not want to make any statements to the newspaper.