Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin Jr. has chafed at state officials’ release of incomplete and sometimes inaccurate information about the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School. Nineteen children and two teachers died in the shooting.A Uvalde police officer armed with a rifle could have shot a gunman before he entered Robb Elementary School and slaughtered 19 children and two teachers May 24. But the officer lost his chance because he was waiting for a superior’s permission to fire.
“ALERRT has not received any information that contradicts what is stated in the report,” J. Pete Blair, the police training center’s executive director, said in an email to the San Antonio Express-News. “This is the only officer that we have identified as potentially being able to shoot the attacker before he entered the building.”
The account wasn’t entirely damning. The report noted that state standards require police officers to demonstrate accuracy with rifles up to 100 feet from a target and that it was “possible that the officer had never fired his rifle at a target that was that far away.”Uvalde Sheriff Nolasco agrees to testify about school shooting after initial refusal
In the Robb Elementary massacre, Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old high school dropout from Uvalde, entered the school through an unlocked door at 11:33 a.m. May 24 and killed the children and teachers with an assault-style rifle.
The mayor is lying. The Uvalde PD cop admitted in a sworn statement and to investigators that he passed up a shot. It’s been corroborated by a county sheriff who spoke to the officer, and then spoke to the Tribune.
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