Wednesday 13 July 2022 03:15 PM Mother of girl shot dead in Uvalde school massacre slams leak of security video trends now
The mother of a girl shot dead in the Uvalde school shooting while her cop husband was restrained at the scene has slammed leaked security footage of the incident, saying it should not have been released before parents had the chance to see it.
The footage, which was leaked to a local news outlet Tuesday and mutes the sound of kids screaming, showed cops' cowardly response to the May 24 shooting, waiting outside a classroom for 77 minutes as a gunman fired more than 100 rounds at kids inside.
Thee attack saw the lives of 19 students and two teachers - all inside the classroom at the time - snuffed out.
Among those killed was 10-year-old Lexi Rubio, whose father, Uvalde County Sheriff Deputy Felix Rubio, was one of dozens of officers told by school district police to not engage the shooter, forced to wait outside as shots and screams rang out.
On Tuesday, hours after the footage spread like wildfire across the internet, Lexi's mother, Kimberly Rubio, criticized the leak, saying the video left her distraught and that parents should have been notified before its release.
Kimberly Rubio, The mother of a ten-year-old Lexi Rubio, who was killed while her cop husband was restrained at the scene, has slammed leaked security footage of the incident, saying it should not have been released before parents had the chance to see it
Ramos' daughter, Alexandria Aniyah Rubio, 10, was one of the 19 children who were killed on May 24
'The world sees a person shooting into an obscured door,' Kimberly wrote in the first in a series of posts reacting to the video, which was obtained and released by the The Austin American-Statesman.
'I see, hear him murdering my 10-year-old daughter, and her classmates,' she said, referring to 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos. 'How much pain is one person expected to endure?'
On Wednesday the mourning mother said that the footage 'broke her.'
'To the person that leaked that footage, congratulations,' she wrote. 'You broke me.'
'But, over the last few weeks, I’ve learned I can pick up the pieces. The image might be a little different but underneath it, there I am,' the mourning mother added, signing the emotional appeal, 'Lexi’s mom.'
Close to the end of the stand off, Uvalde County Sheriff's Deputy Felix Rubio, bottom right, is shown being restrained by brother officers from engaging Ramos
Leaked footage shows how cops in Uvalde, Texas , stalled in the hallway, checked their phones, used hand sanitizer and ran away from the gunfire at the school as Ramos fired more than 100 rounds at children
Leaked surveillance footage shows Salvador Ramos, 18, sauntering through the halls of Robb Elementary School on May 24 carrying an AR-15
During the video, Rubio can be seen looking on helplessly, crying and gesticulating. At one point, a second officer has to help to restrain him.
As multiple law enforcement agencies finally to engage Ramos, an officer who stays back steps across a physically restrained Rubio to use hand sanitizer.
Rubio's daughter, Alexandria Aniyah Rubio, was one of the 19 children and two teachers killed during the vicious attack. She went by Lexi and was 10.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Rubio, an Iraq war veteran, and his wife, Kimberly, became advocates for gun reform. They were with their daughter just hours before she was killed at an awards ceremony at the school.
Felix said in a tear-filled interview with CNN just days after the attack: 'All I can hope is that she's just not a number. This is enough. No one else needs to go through this. We never needed to go through this, but we are.'
The leaked video, as many had predicted, demonstrates how police in Uvalde failed the victims and their families on that day.
During the clip, a disclaimer appears reading: 'Editor's note: The sound of children screaming has been removed. Authorities say more than 100 rounds were fired.'
As he begins to disappear down a wide hallway, he drops his gun by his side to brush back his long hair en route to classrooms 111 and 112 where the massacre unfolded
Ramos begins to disappear out of the view of the camera. This is the last time we see him in the leaked footage
The first officers who arrived on the scene just minutes after Ramos, initially attempted to charge the classroom
