Justice of Mir Lalo Diaz said that when he was called to the scene of mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, and the officers said that several children was killed, his “heart sank knowing that I was going to leave in and must appreciate such a horrific scene,” he told CNN correspondent John Berman. outside school on Thursday.
Because the county, which has fewer than 50,000 people, does not have a medical examiner, Diaz’s job was to process dead.
When he went inside, he saw “something I’ve never want to see again.”
“That was incredible. I children; I have an 8th grader senior in high school and me know how precious life, right? And these are our children in our community” Diaz said.
He recognized body of Irma Garcia, school teacher who was a classmate of his.
Diaz attended school, as did his children. He called it “pillar of in community.”
He said he never thought a mass shooting could occur in his city.
“We community of hunters, we regularly see guns, we see people loading up go hunting for pigeons or deer, but never like This. Never of this caliber when you say we’re going to have a few kills or something like that. This usually happens in occasionally, and rarely. Never would I have thought in my wildest dreams that i would have to go and rate the site in such a state,” he said.
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