![]() “And I remember saying, ‘I don’t have time to think about somebody else’s failure because I’m so consumed with my own,’ because I’m the one that left her there,” she said. ![]() Kim said the first inkling she had of the botched response came early on, not from officials but the questions reporters were asking her. “That’s hard to sit with.”įelix Rubio holds a picture of Lexi as he sits next to Kim at a US House Oversight Committee hearing titled, "Examining the Practices and Profits of Gun Manufacturers," in Washington, DC, last July. I don’t know if it was fast and I don’t know if it took 30, 40 minutes. But because they waited so long, now I’ll never know. Had they engaged immediately and my child is deceased, then I know in my heart that she wasn’t scared very long. “Maybe Lexi’s gone immediately, but that’s what they’ve taken from me – those answers. And I can’t even explain to you what they’ve taken from me,” Kim Rubio said. “My understanding is this first group of officers that come in, they’re shot at, they retreat, and they never go back in. Nearly a year on, there are no answers for Lexi’s parents or anyone else on why it took 77 minutes from the gunman entering the school to him being killed by law enforcement. ![]() Lexi was one of the 19 children and two teachers killed by a teenage gunman with an assault rifle at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last May 24. Interactive: Remembering the victims of the Uvalde, Texas massacre
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