Wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with a photograph of Jacklyn, Jacinto Cazares advised CNN the household had a “powerful and beautiful service” for her Friday.
Cazares stated he desires to recollect Jacklyn as a energetic woman and calls her his angel. “She would do anything for anybody,” he stated shortly after Jacklyn’s killing. “And to me, she’s a little firecracker.”
Many of the buddies Jacklyn made TikTookay movies with have been additionally killed in the capturing, Cazares stated, together with her cousin Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez.
For now, Cazares is concentrated on honoring Jacklyn’s reminiscence, however as soon as all the victims are laid to relaxation, he’ll combat for justice for his daughter and accountability for the police response to the capturing, he stated.
The newest account from authorities signifies the shooter trapped the 21 victims with him inside two adjoining school rooms for greater than an hour as officers gathered in the hallway, regardless of repeated 911 calls from college students asking for assist.
“Nobody’s been disciplined for this. There’s been no repercussions at all for what many have described as one of the worst law enforcement failures in American history,” US Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, advised CNN Saturday. “All of us, the American people, have seen the story and the version of the story change four or five times now.”
Response to capturing has been ‘disturbing,’ congressman says
Frustration grew even deeper Friday evening when the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District held its first board assembly since the capturing.
Parents have been anxious to listen to about security measures the district would implement in the wake of the capturing, however the assembly ended with no clear safety plans.
During the assembly, Superintendent Hal Harrell reiterated college students wouldn’t be returning to Robb Elementary. After that, school board members went right into a prolonged closed-door session that was scheduled to contain the approval of personnel employments, assignments, suspensions and terminations.
It’s “odd and disturbing that the school board didn’t take any action to at least put the chief on administrative leave while everything is sorted out,” Castro advised CNN.
Angela Turner stated she’s a mom of 5 who misplaced her niece in the capturing.
“We want answers to where the security is going to take place. This was all a joke,” she advised reporters after the school board assembly. “I’m so disappointed in our school district.”
Turner insisted she won’t ship her children to school except they really feel protected, including that her 6-year-old little one advised her, “I don’t want to go to school. Why? To be shot?”
“These people will not have a job if we stand together, and we do not let our kids go here,” she stated as she pointed to a vacant school board podium.
Congressman: ‘It’s clear that the state and native officials now are not cooperating’
Further complicating the concern is how information about the investigation is being dealt with. According to Castro, officials at varied ranges of presidency are not working successfully collectively.
The FBI has been partnering with state and native officials on the investigation, Castro stated, however the bureau advised him “it was kind of split up.”
“It’s clear that the state and local officials now are not cooperating with each other,” Castro stated, noting he is requested the FBI to take the full lead on the investigation.
“When I was in Uvalde talking to the families, what they want most of all are answers about why this happened to their kids in their town,” Castro stated.
The Justice Department stated final week it will conduct a assessment of the regulation enforcement response to the capturing at the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin.
And the Uvalde County district legal professional has stated the workplace will weigh in on prison costs associated to the capturing after a assessment of the Texas Rangers’ report on the capturing.
The Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, the state’s largest police union, referred to as on its members this week to cooperate absolutely with the investigation.
“There has been a great deal of false and misleading information in the aftermath of this tragedy,” the union stated in a press release. “Some of the information came from the very highest levels of government and law enforcement. Sources that Texans once saw as iron-clad and completely reliable have now been proven false,” it stated.
CNN’s Camila Bernal, Meridith Edwards, Amanda Watts, Aaron Cooper, Paradise Afshar and Rosa Flores contributed to this report.