Texas Shooting: Elite Border Patrol Team Engaged Gunman
The agents were from an elite tactical team called Bortac, but were locked outside classroom
Members of an elite Border Patrol unit in Texas were quick to responded Tuesday to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, but could not immediately gain access to the classroom because the fourth-grade classroom door was locked and made out steel and cinder block.
ABC News reported that some of these agents had their own children at the school when Salvador Ramos, 18, opened fire with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle to kill 19 children and two teachers.
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Chris Magnus, the CBP commissioner, told the outlet that the agents responded “immediately to the incident with local law enforcement.”
“Many of our local CBP personnel live in Uvalde; they call this community home, and they work to protect their families, friends and neighbors every single day,” he said.
The CBP did not immediately respond to an email from The Trends Journal. The agents were members of a tactical team called Bortac. They entered the school and heard the gunshots. The Wall Street Journal reported that they arrived outside the classroom’s door and were locked out. They tried to break it down, but were unsuccessful. At one point, the gunman fired at the door, the report said. They eventually got a key to the classroom from the school’s principal. The paper said:
“One Bortac agent took rounds to their shield upon entering, a second was wounded by shrapnel. A third killed the suspect. Inside, authorities found dead children in multiple piles, according to the officials.”
The paper said these agents are among the most highly trained federal agents. Their assignments include tracking smugglers and serve “high-risk warrants.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Ramos shot his own grandmother before fleeing from the scene. Abbott said the gunman also posted online that he was going to shoot the woman and that he was going to shoot up an elementary school. The grandmother is in critical condition.
Erick Estrada, Texas Department of Public Safety sergeant, told CNN that the gunman emerged after crashing his vehicle outside the school and was engaged by law enforcement officers. The gunman was in body armor and had the rifle. He seemed to be struggling, so people approached the vehicle to help him and he started shooting at them," one person told Telemundo.
Ramos managed to charge into the school and open fire. A state police official told The Times that the gunman appeared to have dropped a backpack full of ammunition after the early encounter.
One law enforcement official said Ramos “tarted shooting every single person that was in front of him.”
"The investigation is leading to tell us the suspect did act alone during this heinous crime," Pete Arredondo, the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, said. No motive was given.
The shooting sparked a new debate about gun control in the U.S. Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat running against Abbott, interrupted a news conference and called the governor’s response as “predictable,” The Associated Press reported. The report said : O’Rourke was escorted out while members of the crowd yelled at him, with one man calling him a “sick son of a bitch.”
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How horrific... Those poor children.
Thank you Celente and the trends team for keeping us informed