Bodies of children torn apart and decapitated: pediatrician describes the horror after the massacre in the elementary school of Texas

A pediatrician narrated this Wednesday to the members of the United States Congress the horror that he experienced on May 24, the day of the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

The doctor Roy Guerrero appeared before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, where a hearing was held on the armed violence in the United States.

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Warrior explained that upon learning of the shooting at Robb Elementary Schoolwhere an 18-year-old man killed 19 children and two teachers before being gunned down, ran to the Uvalde Memorial Hospital, where the victims were taken.

Outside the building, he found parents who shouted the names of their children, between tears, begging to know if they were alive or dead.

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“Those cries of mothers I will never get out of my head. I know I will never forget what I saw that day.”.

But the worst awaited him inside. The first student she saw went to Miah Cerrillothe 11-year-old girl who survived because she smeared the blood of a friend killed by Salvador Ramos, shooter. She also testified at the video hearing.

Warrior He noted that Miah was in shock, and bleeding from a shrapnel wound to the shoulder. Still, since she had known her all her life, She ran out to tell her parents that the little girl was alive.

When he returned to the emergency room, encountered scenes that “no prayer will relieve, never”.

“Two children whose bodies were pulverized by the bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh was torn,” he said, before a total silence in the place. “The only clue to their identities were the blood-splattered cartoon pieces of clothing still clinging to the bodies.”

With a contorted face, the pediatrician continued: “I was hoping those two bodies would be a tragic exception on the list of survivors. But while I waited with my fellow doctors, nurses, paramedics, for the other victims, the survivors never came. Only the bodies of 17 children and the two teachers who took care of them remained.”

Warrior He launched harsh words at the inaction of politicians in the face of armed violence. “Innocent children across the country are dead today because laws and policies allow people to buy guns before they are legally old enough to buy a pack of beer,” he said. Both the shooter Uvalde like the one in Buffalo, New York, were just 18 years old. “They are dead because the restrictions have been allowed to expire.”

Source: Elcomercio

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