A little girl was found and killed by the Texas school shooter after police told children to yell for help, a young survivor says.
As Salvador Ramos opened fire at Robb Elementary school, a boy claims that cops who were able to finally enter the building told hiding students to shout so they could locate them.
The youngster, whose parents wished him to remain unnamed, had taken cover with four classmates under a table covered with a cloth, which he believes is why they weren't discovered by the 18-year-old attacker.
He said that he and his friends were doing their best to stay hidden and quiet, according to the Mirror.
"When the cops came, the cop said: 'Yell if you need help!' And one of the persons in my class said 'help.' The guy overheard and he came in and shot her," the boy told Kens5.
“The cop barged into that classroom. The guy shot at the cop. And the cops started shooting."
The boy continued: “I was hiding hard. And I was telling my friend to not talk because he is going to hear us.”
It comes after fury among parents of the victims and other members of the public at what they see about the slow approach by the police to take down the shooter.
An hour is thought to have passed between Ramos entering the school and being shot dead.
In one video posted on Facebook by a man named Angel Ledezma, parents can be seen breaking through yellow police tape and yelling at officers to go into the building.
"It's already been an hour, and they still can't get all the kids out," Mr Ledezma said in the video.
Another video posted on YouTube showed officers restraining at least one adult. One woman can be heard saying, "Why let the children die? There's shooting in there."
"We got guys going in to get kids," one officer is heard telling the crowd. "They're working."
It has now been clarified that there was no armed police officer stationed at the school, after it was first stated by authorities that there had been.
The gunman fired more than 25 shots at the outset of the attack, the majority of times he fired, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The massacre, the latest in a years-long string of mass shootings, has reignited a national debate over the country's gun laws.
President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats have vowed to push for new restrictions, despite resistance from Republicans.
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