Texas cop asked to kill Uvalde shooter Salvador Ramos before shooting started

It was revealed on Wednesday that a Uvalde police officer with a rifle asked to shoot Salvador Ramos outside Robb Elementary School on May 24, just before the 18-year-old gunman started the massacre.

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According to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, the officer’s superior either failed to hear the request or did not arrive in time to shoot Ramos, allowing the shooter to enter the building where he killed 19 children and two instructors.

According to a report that was compiled by a Texas-based law enforcement organization, the incident was one of the most significant missed opportunities to stop or kill the gunman at Uvalde before he entered the school.

The report stated that when the officer turned to ask his supervisor for confirmation, the gunman had already entered the west hallway without being stopped.

The shooter entered classroom 111 after the officer missed his opportunity to fire around 32 seconds later.

The report stated that multiple gunshots could be heard in the classroom at once, accompanied with the screams of youngsters.

Another chance was lost when a police officer from the Uvalde school district went to the school to deal with a shooter. According to the report, the officer was traveling at a high speed when he passed the rifle-wielding Ramos.

Numerous law enforcement organizations, including the Justice Department, have criticized and are looking into the law enforcement reaction to the school massacre. Pete Arredondo, the incident commander and chief of the school district police, has received a lot of criticism.

The Texas Department of Public Safety, who is overseeing the investigation into the shooting, has stated that Arredondo bears much of the blame for preventing cops from entering the classroom with teachers and students in critical condition for nearly an hour.

“The only thing keeping a hallway of determined officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander,” Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw said about Arrendondo last month.

Despite the fact that the majority of law enforcement disagrees with him, Arredondo claims he wasn’t the incident commander. After failing to appear at any public meetings since the incident and coming under pressure to resign from citizens, Arredondo was placed on administrative leave by the school system and just resigned from the Uvalde City Council.