德克萨斯州前众议员贝托·奥洛克打断了德克萨斯州州长格雷格·艾伯特的新闻发布会关于乌瓦尔迪枪击案周三，在被护送出礼堂前对现任州长大喊大叫。

他说，阿博特和其他德克萨斯州领导人的反应“完全可以预料”，没有解决困扰德克萨斯州和全国社区的容易获得枪支的问题。

艾伯特命令执法人员护送奥洛克到大楼外，奥洛克周二赢得了民主党州长初选。

舞台上的几名与会者，包括得克萨斯州共和党参议员特德·克鲁兹，开始大声回应，告诉奥罗克坐下，他是“可悲的”，这不是政治的地方。

2022年5月25日，一名枪手在德克萨斯州乌瓦尔迪的罗布小学杀害了19名儿童和两名教师，得克萨斯州民主党州长候选人贝托·奥鲁克(Beto O'Rourke)扰乱了州长格雷格·艾伯特(Greg Abbott)举行的新闻发布会。

爆发后，阿博特恢复了新闻发布会，他说，“每个得克萨斯人，每个美国人，都有责任。我们需要关注的不是我们自己和我们的议程，我们需要关注的是我们为那些遭受不合理伤害的人提供的治疗和希望。”

州长接着说，州法律允许18岁的人购买长筒步枪已经有60年的历史了。他说，推动大规模枪击事件的唯一新因素是“我们社会的精神健康状况”

在外面，奥洛克召开了一个临时记者招待会，抨击阿博特的记录。

“他拒绝扩大医疗补助计划，该计划每年将带来100亿美元，包括为有需要的人提供精神卫生保健，”奥鲁克说。“他拒绝支持红旗法案。...他拒绝支持安全储存法，这样年轻人就不能得到他们父母的武器。"

奥罗克说，随着每个词的出现，枪手越来越愤怒，“他刚满18岁，买了一把AR-15，带进一所小学，朝孩子们的脸上开枪，杀死了他们。”

2022年5月25日，一名枪手在德克萨斯州乌瓦尔迪的罗布小学杀害了19名儿童和两名教师，得克萨斯州民主党州长候选人贝托·奥鲁克(Beto O'Rourke)扰乱了州长格雷格·艾伯特(Greg Abbott)举行的新闻发布会。

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“为什么我们要让这种事情在这个国家发生?为什么这个州会出现这种情况?年复一年，一个又一个城市，”奥罗克说。“如果我们什么都不做，这是我们所有人的责任，而我将要做一些事情，而且我不是一个人。德克萨斯人民和我们在一起，大多数德克萨斯人和我们在一起。嗯，我们必须勇敢面对。”

他继续说，“我们只是不能像往常一样接受这个剧院或业务，接受下一次拍摄。”

“如果我们在圣达菲高中事件后挺身而出，如果我们在埃尔帕索事件后挺身而出，我们本可以阻止这一切，”他谈到最近在得克萨斯州发生的两起大规模枪击事件。“我们要阻止下一个。我们现在就站在德克萨斯州的乌瓦尔迪。这就是我来这里的原因。”

在中断之前，阿博特说，18岁的嫌疑枪手萨尔瓦多·拉莫斯(Salvador Ramos)使用的是一支AR-15步枪，弹药为. 223口径。

他说，嫌疑人似乎没有成年犯罪记录，尽管调查人员正在调查他是否有少年犯罪记录。他还表示，没有证据表明嫌犯曾接受过精神疾病治疗。

“没有任何有意义的犯罪预警，”艾伯特说。

他说，唯一的警告来自拉莫斯在脸书写的一条直接信息，大约30分钟前，他涉嫌在他祖母家开枪。阿博特说，嫌疑人写信给一个或几个人，他们的名字没有透露，“我要开枪打我的祖母。”

阿博特说，这位在医院处于危急状态的祖母拨打了911报告被枪击。

阿博特说，第一条直接信息发出几分钟后，拉莫斯又发了一条，据称是写道，“我开枪打了我的祖母。”

州长说，在罗布小学枪击案发生前大约14分钟，嫌疑人发出了另一条脸书直接信息，写道，“我要枪击一所小学。”

他说，当嫌疑人在学校外撞毁一辆汽车时，三名执法人员受伤，据称在进入学校进行屠杀之前，他们进行了枪战。

阿博特还表示，除了遇难的19名学生和两名教职员工，还有17人在枪击事件中受到非生命危险的伤害，其中包括3名执法人员。他说，一名副警长是在枪击事件中失去女儿的父母之一。

“情况可能会更糟。没有恶化的原因是因为执法人员做了他们该做的，”阿博特说，他称赞了那些冲进学校并在枪手杀死更多人之前将其击毙的警察。

Beto O'Rourke interrupts Texas governor's press conference on shooting

Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, interrupted a press conference from Texas Gov. Greg Abbottabout the Uvalde shootingWednesday, shouting at the current governor before being escorted from the auditorium.

He said the response from Abbott and other Texas leaders was "totally predictable," and did nothing to solve the problem of easy access to guns that is plaguing communities across Texas and the nation.

Abbott ordered law enforcement officers to escort O'Rourke, who won his Democratic primary for governor out Tuesday, outside the building.

Several attendees on the stage, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, began yelling back, telling O'Rourke to sit down, that he was "pathetic," and that this was no place for politics.

Following the outburst, Abbott resumed the press conference, saying, "Every Texan, every American, has a responsibility. We need to not focus on ourselves and our agendas, we need to focus on the healing and hope that we are providing to those who suffered unconscionable damage to their lives."

The governor went on to say that state laws that allow 18-year-olds to purchase long-barrel rifles have been on the books for 60 years. He said the only new aspect that is driving mass shooting is "the status of mental health in our society."

Outside, O'Rourke held an impromptu press conference, railing against Abbott's record."He's refused to expand Medicaid, which would bring $10 billion a year, including mental health care access for people who need it," O'Rourke said. "He's refused to champion red flag laws. ... He's refused to support safe-storage laws so young people cannot get their hands on their parents' weapons."

Growing angrier with each word, O'Rourke said, the gunman "who just turned 18, bought an AR-15 and took it into an elementary school and shot kids in the face and killed them."

"Why are we letting this happen in this country? Why is this happening in this state? Year after year, city after city," O'Rourke said. "This is on all of us if we do not do something and I am going to do something and I'm not alone. The people of Texas are with us, the majority of people in Texas are with us. Well, we've got to stand up to this."

He continued, "We just can't accept this theater or business as usual, and accept the next shooting."

"We could have stopped this if we had stood up after Santa Fe High School, if we had stood up after El Paso," he said of two recent mass shootings in Texas. "We are going to stop the next one. We're standing up right here in Uvalde, Texas, right now. That's why I'm here."

Prior to the interruption, Abbott said the suspected gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, used an AR-15 rifle with .223 caliber ammunition.

He said the suspect appeared to have no adult criminal record, although investigators are looking to see if he had a juvenile record. He also said there was no evidence the suspect was ever treated for mental illness.

"There was no meaningful forewarning of this crime," Abbott said.

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He said the only warning came in a direct message Ramos wrote on Facebook about 30 minutes before he allegedly shot his grandmother at her home. Abbott said the suspect wrote to an individual or individuals, whose names were not disclosed, "I'm going to shoot my grandmother."

Abbott said the grandmother, who is in a hospital in critical condition, called 911 to report being shot.

Abbott said that a few minutes after the first direct message, Ramos sent another, allegedly writing, "I shot my grandmother."

The governor said that about 14 minutes before the shooting at Robb Elementary School, the suspect sent out another Facebook direct message, writing, "I'm going to shoot an elementary school."

He said three law enforcement officers were injured when the suspect crashed a vehicle outside the school and allegedly engaged them in a gunfire before entering the school and committing the massacre.

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Abbott also said that in addition to the 19 students and two faculty members killed, 17 people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting, including three law enforcement officers. He said a deputy sheriff was among the parents who lost a daughter in the shooting.

"It could have been worse. The reason it was not worse is because law enforcement officers did what they do," Abbott said, praising the officers who ran into the school and fatally shot the gunman before he could kill more people.