“Cowards”: the strong complaint to the police of a teacher who saw his 11 students die in the Texas school shooting

“Cowards.”

This is how a teacher who was injured in the school shooting in Uvalde,Texas, last May 24, qualified the police officers for not acting quickly while the students were shot.

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All 11 children in her class died. when the armed attacker, Salvador Ramos, stormed his classroom and the next one for more than an hour, while the police were in the hallway.

In a heartbreaking interview with ABC News, teacher Arnulfo Reyes told police: “You had a bulletproof vest. I had nothing.”

The shooting claimed the lives of 21 people, including 19 children.

The attack on Ramos, 18, has led to a renewed national debate about gun regulations.

“It was going to be a good day”

Reyes, who is a fourth grade teacher and has been teaching for 17 years, said he thought that “it was going to be a good day” when he was on his way to school.

The students were watching a movie when gunfire erupted. She told them to hide under tables and pretend to be asleep, as they had been taught.

But the assailant entered through an adjoining classroom and began shooting.

Tragedy at Robb Elementary School. (GETTY IMAGES).

Reyes was shot and followed the advice he had given his students and pretended to be unconscious.

As he lay near his desk, he could hear the police who had rushed into the school. just a few minutes after the attacker.

but it happened more than one hour before the police stormed the classroom and killed the assailant.

“I prayed and prayed that I didn’t hear any of my students speak,” Reyes told ABC News.

I thought I was going to die.

“One of the students in the other classroom was yelling, ‘Officer, we’re here. We’re here,'” he continued.

“But they were already gone. So he [el asesino] got up from behind my desk and started shooting again“.

“I will never forgive them”

Having offered conflicting information, police now say the killer was hiding in the classroom for 77 minutes before the police stormed in.

Uvalde’s agents have faced strong criticism for the delay in reacting.

Police in Uvalde. (GETTY IMAGES).

Reyes said that he felt abandoned by the police: “There is no excuse for their actions and I will never forgive them.”

He rated them as “cowards”.

During the attack, the children frantically called 911 to report multiple gunshot victims. Concerned parents also tried to enter, but were prevented by the police.

Investigators say the children’s messages were not relayed to officers on the scene, who they waited for more armed equipment to arrive before confronting the assassin wielding the rifle.

Authorities say police were “wrong” in thinking the situation had changed from an active shooter to a barricaded subject.

Source: Elcomercio