{"id":22290,"date":"2022-05-26T07:08:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=22290"},"modified":"2022-05-26T07:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:08:35","slug":"texas-shooting-police-urged-to-enter-school-during-attack-witnesses-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/05\/26\/texas-shooting-police-urged-to-enter-school-during-attack-witnesses-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas shooting: Police urged to enter school during attack, witnesses say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police were urged to charge into a deadly school shooting in Texas by onlookers, witnesses say, with one suggesting he considered doing so himself as he became frustrated.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Texas officials say gunman Salvador Ramos was inside the school in Uvalde for up to an hour before he was killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nineteen children and two adults died, while 17 others were injured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eyewitness Juan Carranza told the Associated Press that women shouted at officers to “go in there”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But the 24-year-old, who witnessed the scene at the Robb Elementary School from outside his house, said police did not enter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Javier Cazares, whose daughter was killed in the attack, told the news agency he suggested running in with other onlookers because the police “weren’t doing anything”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Authorities said the gunman locked himself in a classroom which officers then struggled to gain access to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Steven McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told a news conference on Wednesday that the gunman was on site for between 40 minutes and an hour before law enforcement were able to “contain” him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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US Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, meanwhile, told CNN that dozens of officers responded to the shooting and “didn’t hesitate”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“They entered that classroom and they took care of the situation as quickly as they possibly could,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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