Onlookers urged cops to charge school during Texas shooting

As a teen gunman shot up a Texas classroom Tuesday, cops dragged their heels, witnesses alleged Wednesday.

The 18-year-old shooter killed 19 students and two teachers in a shocking attack that lasted 40 minutes at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. But while the massacre unfolded inside, onlookers yelled at officers assembled to “Go in there!,” according to Juan Carranza, 24, who lives across the street from the school and watched the scene play out.

Javier Cazares, whose daughter Jacklyn was killed, pulled up to the school while cops were still amassed outside. As the “unprepared” police waited, Cazares said he and others huddled together talked about taking action themselves.

“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he recounted, “More could have been done.”

Shooter Salvador Ramos crashed his truck near the school and was armed with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. Officials say he “encountered” a school district security officer outside the building. But reports conflict on whether the security officer exchanged gunfire with Ramos.

After running inside, Ramos open fired on two arriving Uvalde cops outside the building. Ramos then barricaded himself inside a classroom and began unleashing a hail of gunfire.

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“It just shows you the complete evil of the shooter,” said Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Department of Public Safety told CNN.

But the fact Ramos was inside the school for 40 minutes shows the slow response from police, Carranza charged.

“There were more of them. There was just one of him,” he said.

Cops eventually killed the shooter.

Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw defended the police.

“The bottom line is law enforcement was there,” McCraw said. “They did engage immediately. They did contain (Ramos) in the classroom.”

With News Wire Services