Collective mourning and crying have taken over the population of Uvalde, Texas, since last Tuesday when Robb Elementary School was the scene of a massacre perpetrated by Salvador Ramos, 18, who killed with an AR-15 rifle a 19 children and two teachers.
"I want to claim why they are selling these weapons to 18-year-olds. They can't buy beer, they can't buy cigarettes, it's hard for them, but they
can go and buy high-caliber weapons, which not even the police bring,
that's why they don't they want to confront them," Federico Torres, father of Rojelio, one of the 10-year-old students killed on Tuesday, told Noticias Telemundo sadly.
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The Robb school shooting is considered one of the worst mass shootings in recent US history. Law enforcement agencies have faced criticism for the time it took to neutralize the killer.
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"It was a wrong decision, very wrong, we should have entered immediately," said Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Security, at a press conference on Friday.
Federico Torres, father of Rojelio, one of the children killed during the shooting in Uvalde, Texas.Noticias Telemundo
Torres joins the criticism against police action.
"
We are very angry with the police department
, why didn't they do anything? Two days before, the boy had already published what he was going to do. Why didn't they go to his house? Why didn't they check it?" the grieving father continued in an interview with journalist Damià Bonmati.
For his part, the governor of Texas, Gregg Abbott, said at a press conference this Friday that he is furious about what happened: “Yes.
I was deceived. I am furious about what happened …
The information they gave me turned out to be partly inaccurate .
And I'm absolutely furious about it."
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Residents of Uvalde hold vigils and approach memorials to remember those who died in the attack.
Torres wants her son to be remembered as he was: a happy, intelligent and always smiling child.
"We demand justice for our children, what was their fault?"
Torres asserts.
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On the announcement of the visit of the president, Joe Biden, to Uvalde this Sunday, Rojelio's father sighs and adds: "I would like him to give me an answer about what he is going to do, because
my son is no longer going to be to come back
, but what are you going to do to stop this?"
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The journalist Damià Bonmati conducted this interview from Uvalde