Cousin of Uvalde gunman arrested after allegedly threatening similar school shooting

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The cousin of the Uvalde gunman has been arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot up a local school just over a year after his relative fatally shot 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.

The suspect’s mother called police Monday after hearing from her daughter that her son had made the threats. The teen allegedly was riding in the car with his sister when he threatened to shoot her and attack the school, also saying, “School is starting soon,” the sister reported to police.The teen denied making the threats, according to the affidavit. It was not immediately clear whether he had a lawyer.

The teen is charged with making a terroristic threat to the public, which is a felony, and a terroristic threat to his family/household, a misdemeanor, jail records show. His cousin, who was 18 when he carried out the massacre at Robb Elementary School, was killed by police at the school. Law enforcement officers

to confront him, however; in the year since the shooting, many have blamed that wait on the former chief of the school district’s small police force.in May found that at least seven officers — who were still employed as of this spring by the same agencies for which they worked that day — delayed as it became clearer that the students and teachers inside the school were still in danger.

a chaotic medical response, including helicopter and ambulance delays, as victims of the shooting lost blood.

 

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