US officials say three people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a shooting in Philadelphia.
And the “ABC News” network quoted today, Sunday, the city police, that the shooting took place while hundreds of people were enjoying their time in “South Street”, as they do every weekend.
Police added that no suspects have yet been arrested. Further details were not immediately clear.
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Texas police admit error in operation for school massacre: they waited for the janitor with the keys | International
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Police of Texas (USA) admitted this Friday that it was a mistake not to enter before and by force into the room where the attacker of the school where 19 children -between 8 and 10 years old- and two teachers died last Tuesday , to which the agents It took regarding an hour to access.
In a press conference, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Steven McCraw, acknowledged that not breaking down the door and waiting for the concierge to arrive with the key was a “wrong decision” and blamed her on the highest police officer who was at the school at the time.
The New York Times identifies this commander as Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez.
According to McCraw, following having heard multiple shots in the classroom and that they only went to the door when the agents tried to access, the aforementioned chief interpreted that there was no one left alive inside except the aggressor.
This interpretation led him to decide change the protocol from “active attacker” to “entrenched suspect”, So instead of breaking down the door and breaking in, exposing his officers to the assailant’s gunfire, he opted to wait for the key and reinforcements with the proper equipment to arrive.
“(The police chief) considered that there was time and that there were no more children in danger. Obviously, there were and the attacker was still active. It was the wrong decision and there is no excuse that is worth, ” McCraw acknowledged.
The 21 fatalities of the shooting were in the same classroom, but when the police finally gained access, they also found children alive.
Alert calls to the Police were made even from within the classroom by some students.
During the hour in which the Police waited for reinforcements and made no attempt to enter the classroom by force, there were 19 officers in the school according to official sources.
McGraw also confirmed, as had begun to circulate in recent hours, that the local police prevented a heavily armed Border Police team from breaking into the school during the first response to the shooting.
After entering the classroom, Salvador Ramos – as the aggressor has been identified – closed the door from the inside and fired indiscriminately at the students and teachers.
The reaction of the Police is being the subject of numerous and angry criticisms by families and the general public on social networks and the media, considering that the Security Forces might have acted more quickly.
Texas shooting | Salvador Ramos | “He should have killed me”: the father of Salvador Ramos, the murderer of the elementary school in Texas, breaks the silence | United States | Narration | Stories EC | WORLD
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The father of Salvador Ramos– the 18-year-old who last Tuesday murdered 21 people, including 19 children, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas–, apologized for the crime committed by his son. “must have killed me“, he claimed.
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In an interview with The Daily Beast, Salvador Ramos said “I want people to know that I’m sorry. I’m sorry for what my son did. I never expected him to do something like this”.
Salvador Ramos, 42, admitted that he had not spent much time with his son, also called Salvador, because he does not work in Uvalde and the pandemic coronavirus.
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Salvador’s mother (father) had cancer and he might not risk contracting COVID-19 for her. But for Salvador Jr., the precautions that his father was taking with the pandemic were a source of frustration and that for regarding a month he refused to talk to him.
“I will never see my son once more”
“I will never see my son once more“, lament. Salvador Jr. was killed approximately one hour following entering the school.
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“He should have killed me, you know, instead of doing something like he did to someone.”.
Salvador Jr. also had a bad relationship with his mother and dropped out of school before graduating this year.
Ramos Sr., who has lived with his girlfriend east of Uvalde for several years, insisted that his son was “a good person”. Although former school and co-workers have described Ramos as aggressive, his father pointed out that the boy dropped out of school “because they bullied him, because of his way of dressing. He was a silent person, who kept everything to himself. He didn’t bother anyone. People always teased him”.
Detecting negligence from the police and emergency services during the Texas massacre
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
A senior official in the US state of Texas revealed, on Friday, that the police made a “wrong decision” not to quickly enter the elementary school in Yuvaldi, where the shooter holed up and committed a massacre.
Authorities said terrified children called 911 at least six times from a class at the school and pleaded with police to intervene.
“Looking back… when I sit quietly now, I see that the decision was not right… it was a wrong decision,” Colonel Stephen McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told a news conference.
“From what we know, we believe it should have been entered as quickly as possible,” he added, answering questions regarding why police were waiting for support to enter the school.
The police received many calls from many children in the two affected classrooms, including a call from a girl at 12:16 pm, more than half an hour before the police intervened at 12:50.
During one of her first calls, the student, who confirmed several deaths, said, “Please, send the police now.”
But 19 policemen, at the scene, waited for the arrival of a border police intervention unit for regarding an hour following Salvador Ramos’ shooter stormed the building on Tuesday, where the 18-year-old killed 19 children and two teachers.
Urged by journalists to explain the much-criticized delay, the official said that police thought “there might be no survivors.”
But during one of the calls, a female student told the police that “eight to nine students are alive,” McCraw revealed.
Videos released showed parents in a frenzy outside the school begging police to storm the building during the attack, to the point that police had to handcuff some of them.
Standard police security protocols recommend dealing with an active school shooter without delay, which McCraw acknowledged Friday.