UVALDE, Texas — As funerals begin for the dead school children and their teachers, the living are seething over the massacre.
It’s like a tinder box, striking strong emotions around tough questions about why law enforcement took 78 minutes to kill the man who murdered 21 of their beloved. Many in this tight-knit community of nearly 16,000 knew at least one of the law enforcement officers. And they knew the victims or their families.
Martin Villanueva, 36, said the police failed Uvalde, a city now coping with the aftermath of the worst school shooting in the U.S. in a decade. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has its own police chief and officers.
