Grief turned to anger for relatives of the 19 children and two teachers killed in America’s latest school shooting as it emerged that the gunman was inside for an hour before being shot.
Video clips showed that parents had rushed to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, after hearing reports of gunshots. They could be seen remonstrating with heavily armed police who had set up a perimeter, apparently to await a tactical intervention team.
The trauma of the tight-knit mainly Hispanic community was compounded by information from the authorities about how Salvador Ramos entered by an unlocked back door “unobstructed” because no school protection officer was on the scene as previously claimed.
