UVALDE, TEXAS: The Uvalde police officer who was seen calmly using hand sanitizer while Salvador Ramos killed children has been identified.
A video shows Uvalde County Deputy Sheriff Eric Gonzales, 30, using hand sanitizer while the gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. At the same time, another officer is holding back a distraught police officer father whose daughter went to school there. Ramos was the one who ended up killing the kid.
The Daily Mail, which found out who Gonzales was, saw him with his wife and two children at church on a Sunday at the Getty Street Church of Christ in Uvalde recently. People saw him exit the fair, leaving his wife and daughter in his black Chevy Silverado before driving off. He was seen walking to the nearby Dairy Queen, walking through the drive-through and then hanging out in the parking lot for about 30 minutes. He was seen finally returning home. When a Daily Mail reporter tried to speak to him about what had happened at school and why he was using hand sanitizer, he refused to speak and drove away.
A shocking video released recently showed police officers taking too long to respond to a shooting. The 77-minute video showed police watching Ramos for more than an hour before finally being able to stop him. In the video, Gonzales wears a helmet and bulletproof vest over his plaid shirt. As the shooting rages on, he uses hand sanitizer from a dispenser on the wall to clean his hands.
What is the name of Eric Gonzales?
Eric Gonzales lives just two miles from Robb Elementary School with his wife and two children. He is said to have received a bronze star for bravery and bravery in service in December 2020. The award came after a situation in which the officer and a suspect who is a registered sex offender both fired their guns at each other.
Gonzales’ boss, Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco, spoke out in support of him in an email to the Daily Mail. “Prior to the breakthrough, paramedics at the scene asked Deputy Gonzales to help them prepare. Since he didn’t have gloves, they told him to wash his hands. “He put words on paper. But Gonzales doesn’t appear to be “helping a medical team” in the video. Instead, he puts his left hand against the wall after using hand sanitizer. Theoretically, that would mean getting his hands dirty again.
Some of the other Uvalde officers who were there when the attack took place have been identified by the newspaper. These include Uvalde Police Lt. Javier Martinez, 53, Sgt. Eddie Canales, 37, Detective Louis Landry, 36, Venture “Ben” Chapa, 31, Lt. Mariano Pargas, 64, Detective Renato Russell Lualemaga, 30, and Uvalde School District Officer Ruben Ruiz, 43. During the massacre, a police officer named Ruiz was seen looking at his cell phone, which had a “Punisher” wallpaper, and it it turned out that he was the husband of the killed teacher Eva Mireles.
When the publication tried to speak to Javier Martinez, she said she couldn’t speak because the investigation was still ongoing. “I can promise you, sir, that we’re not afraid, but we can’t talk to you. Sir, I would like to speak to you when the investigation is complete, but if I do, I could be charged and I don’t want to be charged,” he said.
On the other hand, Uvalde City Mayor Don McLaughlin placed Mariano Pargas on administrative leave on Sunday July 17 after a state report criticized the police response to the shooting. Pargas was in charge of the police on the day of the massacre. McLaughlin said, “This administrative leave is to find out if Lt. Pargas was responsible for assuming command on May 24th, what steps he took to establish that command and whether this was even possible with all authorities involved and other possible policy violations.”
Max Dorflinger, another police officer who was at school on the day of the shooting, was fired by the Uvalde County Sheriff. He then worked for the Uvalde police, where he still works.
Also, new information about the case suggests two police officers may have been able to save the lives of the 19 children and two teachers whom Ramos brutally killed. An officer reportedly saw 18-year-old Ramos with a gun before he went to elementary school. The officer requested permission to fire over the radio, but never heard a reply. When the officer asked the supervisor for permission to open fire, the supervisor “either didn’t listen or responded too late.” The officer turned and saw that Ramos had already gone in “unchecked”. A Texas State University report says another officer who came to Ramos’s aid did not stop him as he walked across the parking lot to the school. The officer reportedly drove past the gunman at “high speed” and missed him while holding a rifle.
Based on what they found, it appeared no officer waiting in the hallway during the shooting checked to make sure the classroom door was locked. It also emerged that when police finally entered the classroom more than an hour after the shooting began, they were unwilling to deal with the shooter. It appeared that “effective command and control” was never established between the various police agencies that came to the scene of the shooting.
Police have drawn a lot of attention for allegedly not stopping the shooting quickly enough or not reaching the victims in time. In fact, a first responder reportedly told the victim’s mother that she died while awaiting police assistance. The child waited for police for about an hour, but may have died from his injuries due to the delay. The first person to get there said that if the police had gotten there faster, the child might have survived. It was said it took them more than 90 minutes to get to the school after reaching the campus where Ramos brutally killed children. An off-duty Customs and Border Protection agent from an elite tactical unit shot and killed Ramos. Before Ramos could kill more people, the agent shot him dead.