A mother managed to get her two children out of the Ulvalde school when she had been handcuffed by the police a few minutes earlier.

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When Angeli Rose Gomez heard that Robb Elementary School, where her two children were staying, was under a terrorist attack, she rushed there to take care of the two children.

She then traveled nearly 65 km to get to the scene of the shooting, but ran into the police on site who had organized a security perimeter, she reported to the Wall Street Journal.

After several desperate attempts to breach the cordon separating her from the school entrance, and minutes of begging officers to let her through, an officer decided to handcuff her for intervening in an active investigation. .

But the latter, determined to save her son and daughter, managed to free herself from her chains after local police officers she recognized agreed to take her away.

In the aftermath, the intrepid mother jumped over a fence, found her children, and dragged them out of school.

It took nearly an hour before the shooter was killed by a specialized U.S. Border Patrol tactical team, authorities said. During this period, he shot dead 19 schoolchildren and two teachers.

Ms. Gomez told the newspaper that she decided to charge the school herself as officers waited outside the building “doing nothing.”