The husband of a teacher killed in the Texas school massacre taught kids in a local high school to play dead in active shooter drills only two months ago.
Eva Mireles was one of the first identified victims of the sickening school shooting that took place at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas yesterday.
The 44-year-old was one of two teachers to be killed, along with 19 children in 18-year-old Salvador Ramos’ attack.
Mireles' aunt told the New York Times that she died trying to protect her students from the shooter.
Mireles' husband, Ruben Ruiz, is a local police officer and held active shooter drills at Uvalde High School, only two months before his wife was killed.
Both Ruiz and shooter Ramos previously attended the school.
The 16-year-veteran previously shared photos on his Facebook that show him and his fellow officers pretending to be active shooters in drills held at the high school on March 22.
In the drill, the high school students played dead, laying on the floor, and within months a similar attack would be taking place at the local elementary school.
Ramos’ attack was only brought to an end when he was shot and killed by a Customs and Border Patrol agent.
Photos posted on the Uvalde Police Department Facebook page show Ruiz giving a lecture in the high school cafeteria about active shooters.
One shot is eerily reminiscent of the devastation at the elementary school as officers are seen peering around a school hallway as several of the students played dead, laying on the floor.
In a caption, the department said: “Our overall goal is to train every Uvalde area law enforcement officer so that we can prepare as best as possible for any situation that may arise”.
Another image shows a man armed with a mock knife poised to attack a woman.
The same mock attacker is then pictured facing off against one of the training officers, who is pointing an orange gun at him.
This comes as Ken Paxton, the attorney general for Texas, told Fox News that more teachers should carry guns.
He claimed that they couldn’t stop bad people from doing bad things, but that arming teachers was a solution.
He said: “We can harden these schools. We can create points of access that are difficult to get through.
“We can potentially arm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly.
“The reality is that we don't have the resources to have law enforcement at every school.
“So it takes time for law enforcement - now matter how prepared, no matter how good they are - to get there.
"So having the right training for some of these people at the school is the best hope.
Ruiz was born in Uvalde and became an officer in 2006, while wife Mireles taught special education at the Elementary School.
This tragic attack is the latest in a seemingly never-ending line of brutal attacks on schools and other community hubs in the US.
This attack is the deadliest school shooting rampage since a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018.
It comes only 10 days after another shooter walked into a supermarket in Buffalo and gunned down and killed 10 black Americans in a targeted racist attack.
In between the two there were at least two other shootings in America which left three people dead and 13 people injured in Chicago and California.
