“It always plays in my head,” he said.
Angeli Rose Gomez
Angeli Rose Gomez is a Uvalde mom whose children were inside the besieged school. She’s a farm worker who had been at the school that morning for her child’s graduation ceremony. She received a frantic call from her mother and sped back to the school.
“Right away, as I parked, a US Marshal started coming toward my car, saying that I wasn’t allowed to be parked there,” she recalled. “And he said, Well, we’re gonna have to arrest you because you’re being very uncooperative.”
By the time she got to Robb, Elementary parents were gathering.
Intermittent shots echoed from inside the school. Most of those gathered were begging the police to go inside and confront the killer. And were willing to go themselves, if the police didn’t.
Gomez was one of the more vocal parents. She claims the police handcuffed her for a short period.
Cops from various agencies held other parents back as they tried to get into the school and begged the officers to do something. After a local officer convinced the marshal to remove the handcuffs, Gomez said, she bolted toward the school, jumping a fence to get inside.
