Texas school shooting: Officials outline updated timeline of the attack
The husband of one of the teachers shot to death in the Texas school shooting died from a heart attack two days later, accordign to a family member.
Joe Garcia, 50, dropped off flowers at his wife Irma Garcia’s memorial on Thursday morning in Uvalde and returned home, where he “pretty much just fell over” and died, his nephew John Martinez told The New York Times.
The couple had been married for 24 years and had four children.
Mr Martinez said the family was struggling to grasp that while the couple’s oldest son trained for combat in the Marine Corps, it was his mother who was shot to death.
Texas governor Greg Abbott backed out of a scheduled appearance at the National Rifle Association’s convention in Houston on Friday, days after teenage gunman Salvador Ramos massacred 19 children and two teachers.
Meanwhile, police are being slammed for their delayed response, with videos showing desperate parents outside Robb Elementary School during the attack, pleading officers to storm the building.
Salvador Ramos’s father apologises to town of Uvalde
The father of the gunman who carried out the attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde has apologised for his son’s actions.
Salvador Ramos, 42, said he could have never believed his son would do something like this.
“I just want the people to know I’m sorry man, [for] what my son did,” he told the Daily Beast. “I never expected my son to do something like that. He should’ve just killed me, you know, instead of doing something like that to someone.”
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Chiara Giordano27 May 2022 08:57
Republican Texas governor Greg Abbott to address NRA meeting via video
Texas’ Republican governor Greg Abbott will not attend the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual meeting in person as it starts today, just days after the elementary school shooting in Uvalde.
The NRA’s convention starts in Houston, where Republicans including US senator Ted Cruz of Texas and former president Donald Trump are scheduled to address the gun-rights group.
Mr Abbott will now address the group with recorded video remarks and will make a return trip to Uvalde, NBC News reported, citing a statement from his spokesman.
He will hold a news conference there after a meeting with state and local officials, as well as town residents.
Chiara Giordano27 May 2022 08:24
‘Crushing’ to treat mass shooting victims for second time, says Texas doctor
A trauma doctor tending to three children wounded in the school shooting in the Texas city of Uvalde said it is “crushing” to treat victims of the second mass shooting in the area within the last five years.
“It’s a little bit crushing that, you know, you’re talking about a trauma center that’s had two events in the last five years,” Dr Lillian Liao, the pediatric trauma medical director at University Hospital in San Antonio, told Reuters in a Zoom interview on Thursday.
Dr Liao said she is treating one nine-year-old and two 10-year-olds wounded in the Uvalde shooting at the trauma center. She said one child is in serious but stable condition, and the other two are in stable condition. It could be days or up to a month until they are able to leave the hospital.