Tag: Uvalde shooting

‘You Go to the Sound of Gunfire’: Retired Active Shooter Trainer and Border Patrol Special Agent

UVALDE, Texas—Retired Border Patrol special operations agent Jim Volcsko has trained law enforcement officers in active shooter scenarios. For years he was part of the Border Patrol tactical unit called BORTAC, similar to a SWAT team, in the Uvalde and Del Rio region. His former colleague, an active BORTAC agent, fatally shot the suspect at…


Texas School Shooter’s Mother Begs for Forgiveness

The mother of Robb Elementary School shooter Salvador Ramos is begging for forgiveness from the victims and the victims’ families. “Forgive me, forgive my son. I know he had his reasons,” Adriana Martínez Reyes, mother of Salvador Ramos, said to the victims’ families in an interview with Spanish-language station Televisa. When prompted about what reasons…


Texas Shooting Update: 10-Year-Old Discharged from Hospital, Other Patients’ Conditions Improving

A 10-year-old patient who was hospitalized as a result of the Robb Elementary shooting has been discharged from the hospital. On the morning of May 27, the girl was been discharged from the University Hospital-University Health at San Antonio, a spokesperson at the hospital told The Epoch Times. The girl was one of four patients…


Timeline of Texas School Shooting: What We Know so Far

A mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers on May 24. At least 17 others, including children, sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The massacre is the country’s second-deadliest K-12 school shooting on record, following the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Authorities identified Salvador…


White House Waiting for More Details, Won’t ‘Prejudge’ Police Response at Uvalde Shooting

The White House did not directly answer on May 26 whether it thinks there should be an investigation into the police response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Local police have been scrutinized amid reports that officers did not rush to stop the massacre at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two…


Texas Town Prays Together After Tragic Shooting at Elementary School

UVALDE, Texas—Athena Pedraza dropped off a homemade meal at her friend’s house before driving to a community vigil at Uvalde’s rodeo arena on May 25. Her friend’s son was one of the victims in the Robb Elementary School mass shooting the day before. The friend found out at midnight after having to give a DNA…