A Uvalde police officer whose teacher wife was killed in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School was blocked by law enforcement from trying to help her, an official said.
Ruben Ruiz wanted to get to his wife, teacher Mireles Ruiz, when she called him after being shot inside the classroom where she was trapped with the shooter on May 24.
Instead, officers took his gun, detained him, and led him away from the scene, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw told a Texas Senate hearing on Tuesday, streamed by PBS News Hour.
“We got an officer, Officer Ruiz, whose wife had called him and said she had been shot and she’s dying,” McCraw said. “What happened to him was he tried to move forward into the hallway, he was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.”…