'We're not going back': Uvalde superintendent reaffirms no students will return to Robb Elementary after massacre
"We're not going back to that campus," Harrell said during a special meeting of the board of trustees, and added he expects to have a new address for the school in the"very near future."About a week and a half before the meeting, an 18-year-old gunman walked into the elementary school and killed 19 students and two teachers in the deadliest school mass shooting in nearly a decade.
Initially, the Texas Department of Public Safety said a teacher had propped a door open -- only to later say the teacher closed the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus.Emilia Marin, an educator at the elementary school was walking outside the school on May 24 to help a co-worker bring in food for an end-of-the-year party when she saw a vehicle crash, according to her attorney.
Marin saw the gunman approach, Flanary said, so she kicked the door shut and ran to a nearby adjoining classroom, huddling underneath a counter. "She thought he was going to come in and kill her, and she made peace with that," said Flanary."She did think that she wasn't going to make it out alive." While Marin has no plans to sue the school, police or school district, Flanary said, a petition was filed Thursday to depose Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the firearm used in the attack, according to a court filing obtained by CNN.
A letter issued on behalf of Alfred Garza III asked the maker of the AR-15 style rifle used in the massacre to provide all marketing information, particularly strategy aimed at teens and children, according to a statement from the attorneys. "Daniel Defense has said that they are praying for the Uvalde families. They should back up those prayers with meaningful action," Koskoff said.
The announcement of the Washington hearing came on the same day a Texas state legislator established a committee to"conduct an examination into the circumstances" surrounding the Uvalde shooting.
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