MADRID, 26 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Relatives, friends and neighbors of the town of Uvalde held a vigil this Wednesday night for the victims of the shooting at the Robb elementary school at the hands of Salvador Ramos, who stormed into their classrooms armed and killed at least 21 people. among them 19 children between 8 and 10 years old.
Ramos had shared his plans on Facebook about 30 minutes before arriving at the school, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said, where he wrote in a first message that he was going to shoot his grandmother, who survived and alerted local authorities. , according to the American chain CNN.
“The messages Governor Abbott described were one-on-one private text messages that were discovered after the terrible tragedy occurred. We are cooperating closely with law enforcement in their ongoing investigation,” he said in his official Twitter profile. Twitter Andy Stone, spokesman for Meta, the parent company of Facebook.
The 18-year-old posted on the platform 15 minutes before barricading himself inside the building he was to shoot at the school, where he barricaded himself with his victims in a downtown classroom before executing them. Ramos was wearing a bulletproof vest “used by tactical teams, such as SWAT,” and was carrying an assault rifle.
Vigils for the children’s deaths, in addition to Uvalde — at the Uvalde County Fairplex event hall — have also been held in San Antonio and the state capital, Austin. “Thank you to everyone who stood in solidarity with our neighbors in Uvalde tonight,” said San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg on his official Twitter profile.
The first lady of the United States, Jill Biden, has confirmed this Wednesday that she will travel to Texas with the president, Joe Biden, on the occasion of the tragedy. Jill has also sent her condolences to the victims.
Ramos, whose motivations are unknown, was finally shot down by a United States Border Police agent who was off duty, but who was the first to go along with two other agents to the scene.
The attack has left another 17 people injured, although most of them have already been discharged. Those who are still hospitalized are not in danger, reported the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who at a press conference ruled out that the tragedy has to do with easy access to firearms and yes to a mental health problem of those who they commit these acts.