Uvalde School Shooting

Slain Uvalde Teacher's Officer Husband Was Detained, Had Gun Taken Away After Trying to Save Her

Officer Ruiz attempted to storm the school after his wife, Eva Mireles, called him telling him she had been shot.

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’ police officer husband attempted to save her after she was  in Uvalde, Texas, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw.

During the  to the , McCraw claimed that Mireles’ husband, Ruben Ruiz, had his gun taken away, was detained and escorted off the scene after he received a call from his wife.

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“We got an officer, Officer Ruiz, whose wife had called him and said she (had) been shot and she’s dying,” McCraw said in video shared by . “What happened to him as he tried to move forward into the hallway, he was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.” 

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Fourth grade teacher Mireles was one of the two educators who was killed in the school shooting on May 24, when an 18-year-old fatally shot 19 students. Lydia Martinez Delgado told the  that her niece died 

Mireles’ husband is an Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) officer. The couple’s daughter, Adalynn Ruiz,  following her mother’s death.

“Mom, you are a hero. I keep telling myself that this isn’t real . I just want to hear your voice,” she wrote on  in part, adding, “I want everything back. I want you to come back to me mom. I miss you more than words can explain.” 

New revelations about the police response in Uvalde as state lawmakers try to unravel what appears to be a changing story. Tuesday, the Director of the Department of Public Safety answered questions for several hours. Political reporter Julie Fine has the story.

Mireles’ cousin, Amber Ybarra, also  after the tragic shooting, remembering her as “a hero.”

“No one walked into that school yesterday knowing that anything like this was possible,” Ybarra shared, adding that Mireles loved “what she did at the school, and she put her heart in everything that she did.”

While McCraw was testifying during the Texas Senate hearing, he called the police response an “abject failure.” McCraw’s office is one among many investigating law enforcement’s response to the shooting.

He also stated that “one of the biggest problems” during the shooting was “not only the lack of leadership, but also the misinformation that’s being provided.” 

“What officers were being told was, ‘The subject is contained, the chief is in the classroom or the office, negotiating or talking to the subject. So everyone is treating it, that comes in afterwards, you’re in the hallway and you’re looking at it, and you’re being told this, there’s no reason to discount that,” he stated. “Now, certainly if you heard, ‘Well, wait a minute, we’re getting 911 calls from children in the classroom.’ And we didn’t know the timeline.”

Additionally, a  taken 19 minutes after the gunman started shooting appeared to show officers with more firepower and protective gear than previously thought.

“Investigators really believe at this point, based on my understanding, that that was certainly enough firepower to try and take on the gunman,” Austin American-Statesman reporter Tony Plohetski told 온라인카지노사이트 News correspondent Gabe Gutierrez on TODAY Tuesday.

The ongoing investigations will attempt to answer why officers waited more than an hour to take the gunman down.

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