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VIDEO. "It's time to die", the chilling story of a child survivor of the Uvalde shooting

2022-05-27T09:13:23.911Z


After the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, anger is mounting among residents. A 9-year-old child who survived the shooting


He was in class when Salvador Ramos broke into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

The students were watching a Disney to celebrate the end of the school year when the shots rang out.


“When I heard the shot through the door, I told my friend to hide under something.

That way he won't find us,” says the boy, barely 9 years old.

“He came in, he crouched down a bit and he said, 'it's time to die'”, he adds.

In the shooting, 21 people died, including 19 children aged 7 to 10.

The role of the police is at the center of questions in Uvalde after the killing.

Many parents charge the police, accusing him of being passive.

"There were at least 40 officers armed to the teeth but they didn't do anything until it was too late," Jacinto Cazares, father of 10-year-old Jacklyn Cazares, killed in the incident, told ABC. massacre.

After shooting his 66-year-old grandmother, Salvador Ramos went to elementary school wearing a bulletproof vest and an AR-15.

“I just opened the curtain.

And I put my hand out.

I went out with my friend.

I knew it was the police.

I saw the armor and the shield”, recalls the child survivor who testifies in the presence of his parents.

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" Do not forget them "

Hundreds of people gathered outside the school to express their grief.

Among them, Dora Mendoza, grandmother of Amerie Jo Garza, a 10-year-old victim “My granddaughter was inside.

She was an innocent little girl who loved school and couldn't wait for summer.

And she won't see it.

And my heart aches because I will never, ever have my little one again.

Like many, Dora Mendoza hopes that the government will not stand still after this massacre.

“They (the government, editor's note) have to do something.

They mustn't forget us, the little ones, the children, don't forget them, please, she begs, in tears.

Do something, I beg of you.

All the cries of these innocent toddlers, of whom we don't know what they endured, listen to their voices, I beg you”.

Source: leparis

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