Marin went inside the school to report the accident and left the door open with a rock, according to Flannery, who is assisting Marin with a possible civil claim against the makers of the weapon used in the slaughter.
Flannery said Marin saw the 18-year-old gunman approach, so she closed the door and fled to a nearby orbit, walking under a counter.
Said her lawyer, “Frozen”, in fear, Marin received a text from her daughter asking if she was safe, and eventually had to silence her phone, convinced the gunman would hear her. Told.
“He thought he would come in and kill her and he made peace with her,” Flannery said.
“She felt alone, like she couldn’t even grieve,” Flannery said. “He second-guessed himself, like ‘Didn’t I do that? He added.
The pre-suit petition does not allege any wrongdoing on the gun manufacturer, but seeks to examine whether the petitioner has any ground to file a claim against Daniel Defense. CNN has reached out to Daniel Defense for a response on the filing.
State senators ask for more answers
Court records obtained by CNN show a search warrant has been issued for the shooter’s cell phone, vehicle and his grandparents’ home. The warrant entitles investigators to a forensic download of the cell phone – which was located next to his body – in search of a motive.
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez said he spoke to the agency that regulates 911 calls, the State Emergency Communications Commission, and was told that the 911 calls were handled by the city’s police force and sent to the scene. was. However, it is not clear whether this information was passed on to the school district police chief, who was the incident commander at the scene.
“He was being contacted by the Uvalde police officer and the state agency I’ve spoken to hasn’t told me who he is,” Gutierrez said.
“I want to know where the policemen were in that room. I want to know how many policemen I had, how many state soldiers were there. I want to know how many state soldiers were out. I want to know how many federal officers Were in for 19 minutes, I mean for 45 minutes,” Gutierrez told reporters.
“I want to know specifically who was receiving the 911 call,” he said.
CNN has contacted the State Emergency Communications Commission, Uvalde Police and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District for comment on Gutierrez’s statements.
The state senator also said that DPS Colonel Steven McCraw told him he would receive information about the identities of the 19 officers who were in the hallway outside the classroom on Friday. Gutierrez promised to share the information once received with the media.
The judge told that trying to identify the victims
As the community comes together to bury the lost, the justice of the peace who was on duty to serve as the de facto coroner, recalled the tragic scene.
Judge Lalo Diaz Jr. learned of the status “an active shooter” from police alerts on social media, he told CNN’s Poppy Harlow on Thursday, fearing the possibility that there would be fatalities.
But, shortly after, “I hear ambulances and I hear officers and sirens,” he said.
“My mind was just racing,” Diaz said, “knowing I was going to see something that was incredible, that I never wanted to see.”
“It breaks my heart,” Diaz said. “I see the devastation that these weapons did to kids and these teachers, and it’s unbelievable.”
CNN’s Rebekah Rees, Chris Boyette, Amir Vera, Holly Yan, Elizabeth Joseph, Aya Elamrousi and Haley Burton contributed to this report.