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Grim footage showed parents lining up to turn in DNA samples to help identify the remains of 19 students massacred by a gunman at a Texas elementary school.
Family members were filmed lining up outside an auditorium near Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday night before dark.
Sobs were heard throughout the night as at least five family members were told their children had been killed. Two teachers have also been confirmed as victims of the grisly incident.
The parents had to wait outside the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center to provide DNA samples to help authorities identify the remains of the children who may be unrecognizable after the tragedy.
Parents were also desperately waiting for their children at designated meeting places, hoping their loved ones would turn up again. As the night progressed, the car park slowly began to fade.
Victims
Among the missing children are Makenna Elrod, Uziyah Garcia, nine, and Xavier Lopez, 10, Amerie Jo Garza, Eliahana Torres, Ellie Garcia, as well as fourth-grade teacher Eva Mireles and another teacher Irma Garcia.
Mireles, a fourth grade teacher, was identified by her family as one of the staff members shot to death. She had worked in education for 17 years.
Her husband, Ruben Ruiz, a veteran detective and SWAT team member who currently serves as a police officer in the school district, held regular active shooter drills for schools, most recently in late March.
Salvador Ramos, 18, armed with a handgun and possibly a rifle, entered Robb Elementary School and opened fire around 11:30 a.m.
Two parents, who claimed to be friends of Ramos’s family, said the teenager Ella was serious and short-tempered and that she often snapped at her mother as she grew up, The New York Times reported. However, both parents, who were not identified, said they were shocked to learn that he could do something so violent.
Salvador Ramos Suspect
Ramos, who was born in North Dakota but lived in Uvalde, had been a student at Uvalde High School, Governor Gregg Abbott said. One of his friends from him at high school said he was teased about his clothes from him and his family’s financial situation from him.
He also worked at Wendy’s, where staff remembered him as quiet.
‘You know how my guys talk to each other and are friendly? He wasn’t like that. No one really knew him,’ the night manager Adrian Mendes told The New York Times.
‘He felt like the quiet type, the one who doesn’t say much. He didn’t really socialize with the other employees,’ Mendes told CNN. ‘He just worked, got paid, and came in to get his check from him.’
‘He shot and killed - horrifically and incomprehensibly - 14 students and killed a teacher,’ Abbott said at a press briefing. The death toll was later revised to 19 children.
‘There are families that are in mourning right now. And the state of Texas is in mourning with them.’
It was the deadliest such incident since 14 high school students and three adult staff were killed in Parkland, Florida in 2018 - and the worst at an elementary school since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut, in which 20 children and six staff were killed.
‘The idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong,’ said Joe Biden, addressing the country from the White House on Tuesday night.
‘As a nation, we have to ask: When in God’s name will we stand up to the gun lobby?’
He added: ‘Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep on letting this happen? Where in God’s name is our backbone?’
Shooting
Four days prior to Tuesday’s shooting, Ramos reportedly sent his friend a picture of the AR and a backpack full of 5.56 rounds.
‘[He had] probably like seven [magazines],’ he said. “I was like: “Bro, why do you have this?” and he was like: “Don’t worry about it,”‘ the unidentified friend said.
The school shooter-who originates from North Dakota and had recently moved to Texas-had reportedly bought two rifles on his 18th birthday, which was days ago, the Daily Beast reported.
Under a new Texan law passed in September, those aged 18-21 could buy guns if they had a protective order, because they were at risk of family violence, stalking, prostitution or sex trafficking.
The law also removed the requirement for a permit for a handgun. Rifles were already permitted in Texas without licenses.
Ramos also told his friend that he ‘looked very different now.’
‘You wouldn’t recognize me,’ he messaged less than a week ago.
Ramos’s social media was full of photos of his new guns, which he bought on his 18th birthday, state senator Roland Gutierrez said.
Ramos also messaged a Los Angeles-based woman on May 12 on Instagram, tagging her in a photo of the guns.
She replied: ‘No, it’s just scary,’ adding: ‘I barely know you and you tag me in a picture with some guns?’
The last message from her at 9:16 a.m. Tuesday was ‘Ima air out’.
Ramos was shot and killed by police at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, after killing 21 people.
Irma Garcia Quick and Facts
- Parents lined up to give DNA swabs to help authorities identify the child victims after the Texas elementary school massacre that killed 19 students
- The child victims are: Makenna Elrod, Uziyah Garcia, nine, and Xavier Lopez, 10, Amerie Jo Garza, Eliahana Torres
- Two teachers Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia have also been confirmed dead
- Salvador Ramos, 18, equipped with a handgun and possibly a rifle, entered the Robb Elementary School and opened fire around 11.30am
- He was killed following a subsequent shootout with police
- Family friends said they remember the teen having a temper growing up, but shouldn’t believe he could be so violent
