US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill met with the families of victims and survivors of a massacre in Texas at a school where 19 children and teachers were killed last Tuesday. The presidential couple participated in a mass in Ovaldi.
The president and first lady landed at San Antonio Airport at 10:10 a.m. local time (5:10 p.m. Poland time). They reached Ovaldi by Marine One helicopter. Any USMC helicopter carrying the President of the United States is called as such.
The President’s White House program and the first lady’s Ovaldi residency included honoring the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting. Joe and Jill Biden attended mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvald. – Do something! The crowd outside cheered as Biden left after mass. The president replied, “We will.”
The presidential couple met with the families of the victims of the school attack and the survivors of the shooting.
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrive in Uvald, TexasPAP / Environmental Protection Agency / Tanin Morey
The motive for the crime has not been determined
Tuesday The attack in Ovaldi 19 students and two teachers were killed. So far, the motives of the 18-year-old striker have not been determined. It is under investigation, and the media continues to report incomplete and sometimes contradictory details of the tragedy.
“The Texas Department of Public Safety reported that over an hour and a half passed between the killer entering the school and US Border Patrol agents opening the classroom door where he barricaded himself. About 20 officers stood in the corridor for 45 minutes outside the classroom before opening the classroom door where he cornered himself. . her door with a master key ”- CBS News reported on Sunday.
19 children were killed in the Uvald school massacreTanin Morey / PAP / Environmental Protection Agency
State police have been criticized for delaying intervention during the shooting. It ordered the border guards who had arrived there earlier to wait for their officers to intervene.
For the second time this month, Biden is going to a city still reeling from the aftermath of a mass shooting. On May 17, he visited Buffalo, New York, where on May 14 an 18-year-old attacker who was arrested by police killed 10 people in a supermarket.
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