This Friday morning, a shooting Within the prestigious Colegio Cervantes in Torreón, Coahuila, generated psychosis among parents, who rushed to hear the news went to the place.
“I had a very long trip from work to school and what I wanted was to see my daughter”
A minor introduced two guns, and with them he wounded his classmates, a teacher, and finally killed his teacher and then shot himself. The final balance is two dead.
The newspaper “El Siglo de Torreón” compiled the testimonies, the voices of relatives who were heading to the place, as well as a student who tells that when they heard the detonations, the teacher asked them to bend over and cover themselves.
José de la Torre, father of the school, said in an interview to the newspaper that when the parents arrived at the place they were very upset, while the entrance guards tried to reassure them. “Everyone wanted to go for their children and take them,” reports the newspaper.
He said his wife was the one who told him there was a shooting at the school where his daughter attends kindergarten, So he left his job and headed straight for the place.
“When I arrived at the place there were a lot of people, all running and crying, because one was also nervous and my work trip to school was very long and what I wanted was to see my daughter,” he said.
“He said that when he arrived at school he realized that the kindergarten children did not hear anything that happened, since the kindergarten facilities are located on the street in front of the elementary and secondary school,” the narration of the diary.
José commented that they made them go through the children quickly and indicated that when he left he tried to cover his daughter so he wouldn’t see what was happening, “but obviously he raised his little face and saw some things. “
He added that, in the kindergarten part, the teachers knew how to remain calm and the little ones left very calm, although when they left they realized that something was happening.
The newspaper also said that a student of the Cervantes School reported that they heard the detonations despite the fact that the classrooms are separated, while their classroom teacher told them to bend over, get under the benches and closed the door.
The fact, today morning, shocked Mexico and above all, opened a debate on two specific issues: the “Safe Backpack” operation and the influence of videogames on violent behaviors of children, because Governor Riquelme said that a video game could influence the child.
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