The cop husband of slain Uvalde instructor Eva Mireles was caught on video checking his telephone in the course of the bloodbath — earlier than he was allegedly stopped from saving her, a Texas lawmaker revealed Wednesday.
Ruben Ruiz, an officer with the college police division, got here beneath scrutiny after new safety footage confirmed him selecting up his telephone — bearing a Punisher lock display — whereas responding to the Could 24 bloodbath that left 19 kids and two lecturers useless, together with his spouse.
Texas Rep. Joe Moody took to Twitter Wednesday afternoon to out Ruiz, saying the cop had been in contact together with his dying spouse after she was shot whereas shielding her college students from the gunman in her classroom.
“That is the husband of instructor Eva Mireles, who contacted him on his telephone from her classroom whereas he was on-scene to say that she’d been shot and was dying,” Moody tweeted.
“I’d not deliberate to talk publicly till the report was launched, however I couldn’t say nothing seeing this man, who’s misplaced every part, maligned as if he was detached or actively malicious. Context issues,” Moody continued in one other publish.
The second Ruiz checks his telephone was a part of chilling surveillance footage from inside the college displaying cops’ botched — and excruciatingly delayed — response to the slaughter that lasted greater than an hour at Robb Elementary Faculty. The video was launched in full — with childrens’ screams edited out — on Tuesday by the Austin American-Statesman and native TV station KVUE.
The video exhibits Ruiz shortly checking his telephone down the hallway earlier than a barrage of gunfire rings out down the hallway seconds later, sending different officers retreating. Wanting clearly scared, he once more checks his telephone earlier than placing it again in his pocket.
“To those that haven’t bothered to learn even the information that’s been reported in your rush to judgment, he tried to have interaction however was faraway from the constructing and disarmed. We’ll have a lot to say concerning the police response, however no criticism of this officer,” Moody concluded.
Texas Division of Public Security Director Steve McCraw stated at a listening to final month that Ruiz tried to rescue his dying spouse however “was detained, and so they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.” He didn't point out which of the numerous departments on scene detained him.
Uvalde police have confronted backlash over the dealing with of the capturing — with cops solely taking out 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos greater than an hour into the bloodbath, as evidenced by the brand new footage.
The newest from the Texas college capturing
The Punisher, a vigilante recognized for utilizing deadly weapons in his one-man struggle on crime, made his Marvel debut in 1974. In recent times, the character’s brand has been co-opted by cops, army personnel and extremists.
Editor’s be aware: This story has been up to date in mild of latest details about the id of the cop.
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