Two Uvalde officers had chance to shoot gunman, sheriff’s deputy says
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#60GMW)
Unidentified officers said they feared hitting children outside the school, chief deputy tells the New York Times
Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb elementary school before he went on to kill 21 people inside the school, a senior sheriff's deputy told the New York Times.
That would mean a second missed opportunity for officers to stop Salvador Ramos before the 24 May attack inside the school that killed 19 children and two teachers. Officials said that a school district police drove past Ramos without seeing him in the school parking lot.
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