By Editorial News Telemundo
The shooting at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers, has caused deep
unrest
in the public and has set fire to the controversy over
gun
control
.
Details are also known about how the
police
acted and statements from the
murderer 's
mother .
Here the latest:
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The murderer was not undocumented or transgender: users spread false information about Ramos
19m Aug / 3:06 PM UTC
Two days after the massacre, conspiracy theories and news or false information are multiplying on social networks and platforms such as Reddit about the tragedy and the attacker, Salvador Ramos, and his possible motives.
Some users have claimed he was an immigrant living in the US illegally, but authorities have indicated the 18-year-old
was a US citizen
.
On Twitter, an image of a transgender woman, named Sabrina, was spread and it was
falsely said that she was the one who had perpetrated the shooting
.
"This is all a horrible ordeal," the woman said in an interview with The Associated Press from New York, where she lives.
Other photos released showed a woman named Sam, who is actually a Reddit user, falsely claiming that she was Ramos.
The false posts have been accompanied by well-known conspiracy theories that suggested the entire shooting was staged in some way.
The claims reflect broader issues around racism and intolerance toward transgender people, and are
an effort to blame the shooting on minority groups
who already bear the highest rates of online harassment and hate crimes, according to the statement. disinformation expert Jaime Longoria to AP.
"It's a tactic that serves two purposes: It
prevents real conversations about the issue (of gun violence) and it gives people who don't want to face reality a scapegoat
, it gives them someone to blame," Longoria said, director of research at the Disinfo Defense League, a nonprofit organization that works to combat racist misinformation.
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Murderer's mother says her son 'wasn't a monster'
2h Aug / 1:25 PM UTC
The mother of the 18-year-old killer who killed 21 people at the Uvalde school said in an interview with ABC News that her son "wasn't a monster," but he could "be aggressive."
"I had an uncomfortable feeling at times, like I had to say: 'what are you doing?'" said Adriana Reyes, in an interview from her home.
"He can be aggressive ... when he really gets mad," she detailed.
Salvador Ramos bought two assault rifles after his 18th birthday.
His mother said that she did not know that she had acquired those weapons and she offered her condolences to the families of the victims several times in the interview.
"Those kids... I have no words," Reyes said through tears, "
I don't know what to say about those poor kids
."
After the tragedy, acquaintances of the young man indicated that he suffered harassment as a child.
They portrayed him as withdrawn, almost friendless, and violent.
Some classmates told ABC News Wednesday that Ramos was known to fight and threaten his classmates.
They said he engaged in increasingly disruptive behavior over the past two years, threatening at least one classmate and harassing others.
This is what is known about what the murderer was like, based on the accounts of those who knew him, and what he did in the massacre step by step.
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Witnesses say they had to urge the police to enter to arrest the attacker
2h Aug / 1:15 PM UTC
Witnesses to the massacre at the school have reported this Wednesday that they had to urge police officers to enter the institution in the presence of the attacker, who ended up shooting 19 children and two teachers to death.
“Get in there!
Get in there!” women near the school yelled at officers shortly after the shooting began, according to Juan Carranza, 24, who watched the scene from outside his home across the street. street of Robb Elementary School in the United City of Uvalde.
Carranza told The Associated Press that officers did not immediately go inside.
Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, also said he ran to the school when he heard about the shooting and arrived while police were still gathered outside the building.
Upset that the officers weren't moving, he brought up the idea of entering the school with other bystanders.
“They [the officers] were not prepared,” he said.
Investigators, meanwhile, are moving to determine how the shooting, which lasted more than 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team, occurred.
Authorities have said that the attacker "ran into" a school district security officer outside the school (although they are unclear as to whether there were any exchanges with this officer).
Once he entered the building, he shot two Uvalde police officers who were arriving outside the school, who were injured.
He then barricaded himself in a classroom and began killing those present.
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2h Aug / 1:00 PM UTC
White crosses placed in front of Robb Elementary to honor shooting victims
May 26, 202202:55
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3h Aug / 12:50 PM UTC
"I wanted to see my daughter alive": a mother recounts how she faced the Uvalde massacre
May 26, 202209:33
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The Uvalde school district had an extensive security system.
But it does not work
3h Aug / 12:48 PM UTC
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had doubled its security budget in recent years, according to public documents released by NBC News, in part to comply with state legislation passed in the wake of a 2018 school shooting in which Eight students and two teachers died.
Spending on school safety and monitoring services at Uvalde
has more than doubled since 2017
, going from about $200,000 to nearly $450,000 for the current school year, according to school district budget documents.
The district adopted a series of security measures that included its own police force, threat assessment teams at each school, a threat reporting system, social media monitoring
software
, fencing around schools, and a requirement that teachers lock their classroom doors, according to the safety plan posted on the district's website.
However, none of this had any effect.
Uvalde's safety plan outlines secure entry systems for two of the district's schools, but not for Robb Elementary.
The plan mentions the fencing of Robb Elementary School "designed to limit and/or restrict access to people who do not need to be on campus."
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3h Aug / 12:40 PM UTC
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A Uvalde newspaper reflects on its front page the mood of the city
3h Aug / 12:28 PM UTC
The editors of the local newspaper Uvalde Leader-News published this Thursday's front page completely covered in black and with the date of the fatal shooting blank, reflecting the mood of the city.
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3h Aug / 12:10 PM UTC
Seventeen children remain hospitalized after the shooting in Uvalde, several of them in serious condition
May 26, 202200:55
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"It was incredible": the mother of a student remembers one of the teachers
3h Aug / 12:00 PM UTC
Irma Garcia, one of the teachers killed at Robb Elementary School, was remembered as a kind and protective teacher with her students.
Marisela Villalobos, who worked in the same educational center, said that her son received classes from García.
“My son had a hard time going to school.
She bought him and brought him
Happy Meals
[children's menu from the McDonald's hamburger chain] and they had lunch together at school,” Villalobos revealed to our sister network MSNBC near a monument in Uvalde.
“I was amazing with him.
He loved her very much and she loved him," said Villalobos.
Garcia was one of two teachers who lost their lives among the 21 victims of the shooting.
Her son said that a friend from law enforcement who was at the scene saw Garcia protecting her students.
Villalobos said he was not surprised.
“That's the kind of person he was.
He was just amazing,” Villalobos said.
"And I just can't believe this."
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4h Aug / 11:44 AM UTC
Children between 8 and 10 years old, almost all of them Hispanic: the faces of the victims of the Texas school shooting
May 25, 202201:11
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Black, Asian and Latino communities have been the main targets of mass shootings
4h Aug / 11:32 AM UTC
By Sakshi Venkatraman and Char Adams —
NBC News
The country was still in upheaval over a deadly shooting attributed to a suspected white supremacist in Buffalo, New York, a shooting of Korean women in Dallas, and the slayings at a Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods, California, when a gunman killed at least one man on Tuesday. 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.
The Black, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities show their solidarity with the Latino population of Uvalde at a time when calls to protect the most disadvantaged populations in the United States are increasingly urgent.
Latino and Hispanic residents make up 72.7% of the Uvalde County population, according to census data.
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4h Aug / 11:05 AM UTC
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How to talk to children after the school massacre in Texas?
5h Aug / 10:40 AM UTC
The massacre at the Uvalde elementary school has left many students with questions about what happened, the weapons and the presence of police in the schools.
Parents and caregivers can use these six conversation strategies.
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