'I checked every hospital': Agonizing, frantic hours for families of schoolchildren

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Dozens of friends and relatives of children missing after Tuesday’s school shooting in Texas, gathered at the convention center. Inside, officials took DNA samples and promised to confirm whether their kids were among the 19 killed

gathered at the convention center in the middle of town.

“They’re not doing too good,” he said of his siblings, who had already provided DNA samples. “This is a good town, a really good town. It’s just a waiting game.”Officials say Salvador Ramos, 18, carrying a handgun and possibly a rifle, entered Robb Elementary School in the working-class city of about 16,000 people approximately 80 miles west of San Antonio. Police officers are believed to have killed the gunman, who had been a student at a nearby high school, Abbott said.

“I checked every hospital. I hope for the best, but this is scary. Your head doesn’t want to go there,” she said as she stood in the dark parking lot awaiting news. Officials at the convention center told those with children still missing late Tuesday that DNA identification was likely to take two to three days, and that the bodies wouldn’t be released for eight days, said Lorinda Rios, 32, a local bail bondsman who had come to support friends with a missing child.Families knew that two unidentified children wounded in the shooting were being treated at University Medical Center in San Antonio, she said.

 

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Show it. Publish images, not just words, so Americans can begin to understand why it means to turn school filled with little children into an abattoir.

Must find a practical effective solution to protect kids ! Every school should create a response team of staff that get trained & have access to defense tools is part of feasible solution. Hope practical changes finally made in each school to stop such horrific mass murders !

How horrible!!! As a parent, can you imagine?

I believe there should be a gps tracker in all firearms sold across United States, moreover in the world. And these should be tracked live by the government like if there is a particular firearm near a school building, hospital etc. Then, police officers nearby should be notified

This is just another day in the Christian Nation, Amen!

Do American schools not have secure door entry systems like we have here in the UK? For me to enter my kids school someone inside the school office has to let me in but I will be questioned as to why I want in. After Dunblane everything in UK schools changed.

A typical day in the USA🐷 ....What a shit country💩....USA is unsafe👍👍

Ech. That means a lot of those kids had their heads/faces blown off.

DNA samples They had to identify the children to parents by DNA samples JHC!

💔 I have no words .... may they Rest In Peace 😢

Enough said!!! You’ll allow this pretty shameful America

█021 Why are there no security guards w/ guns in the school but politician buldings are filled with it? Are these children less important than the politicians? Terrorists&criminals wont have a hard time buying illegal guns in states w/ strict gun laws. Just look IL & MI. █021

Deeply saddened by the loss of such beautiful lives... We hope for a better tomorrow for everyone!

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