Salvador Ramos, who dropped out of high school, made a deadly rampage at a school in Uvalde in southwest Texas last month. And so devastated is the small community tied up by the tragedy that now decided to close the school and destroy it. At a press conference in Uvalde City Council, answering a question, Mayor Don McLaughlin confirmed the demolition. But he added that there is no exact timetable for this to happen yet. Image: Uvalde City Council meeting. Photo: Uvalde City / Facebook The news comes a few hours after it was revealed that there were enough armed police officers to stop Ramos three minutes after he entered the school. Picture: The scene at school after the shooting Steven McCrow, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, described the response as a “miserable failure” with “terrible decisions” made by the local commander. He reiterated his earlier claim that 19 officers had waited more than an hour in a corridor outside the ranks before a Border Patrol task force entered and killed the gunman.
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Nineteen fourth-graders – ages 11 and 12 – and two teachers were killed in the May 24 attack. Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut was demolished after a gunfire erupted in December 2012 that killed 26 people – 20 children between the ages of six and seven and six adult staff members.
