The husband of slain teacher Eva Mireles is the Uvalde CISD officer seen looking at his phone in the first few minutes of a video of the slow police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary, according to a tweet by state Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso.
The officer, Ruben Ruiz, was one of four officers who rushed into the school just a few minutes after the 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, strolled inside on May 24 with an assault-style rifle and began shooting children and teachers inside classrooms 111 and 112.
The officer whom Moody identified as Ruiz has been attacked on Twitter as emblematic of the slow-moving law enforcement response to the massacre. In the video, the officer remains at the end of a hallway after the gunman fires at other officers who had approached the door to the classrooms. On Wednesday, Moody tweeted a link to a New York Post story that included a screen grab of the officer looking at his phone with a headline that read: “Uvalde officer checks phone with Punisher lock screen during Texas school shooting.”
“This is the husband of teacher Eva Mireles, who contacted him on his phone from her classroom while he was on-scene to say that she’d been shot and was dying,” Moody tweeted.
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