The grandmother of the Uvalde school shooter has been discharged from a hospital on Tuesday, over a month after she was shot by her grandson.
The University Health Hospital in San Antonio released Celia Gonzales and upgraded a 10-year-old girl to good condition, the hospital announced Tuesday. Both are the last two patients from the shooting, the hospital wrote on social media.
We are pleased to share some good news related to last month’s tragic shooting in Uvalde:
The 66-year-old woman has been discharged, and the 10-year-old girl has been upgraded to good condition.
— University Health (@UnivHealthSA) June 28, 2022
Prior to the school shooting, Gonzales, 66, was shot in the face on May 24 after reportedly getting into a fight about a phone with her grandson, Salvador Ramos, after which she emerged from her house bleeding and crying for help, according to her neighbor. She was upgraded to “fair condition” on May 29, but a relative reported that “she may never be able to talk again.”
FACTS OF UVALDE SHOOTING VIOLATED ALL 4 STEPS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL SECURITY
The shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two teachers dead. Investigations by state and federal agencies are scrutinizing a timeline of law enforcement’s response, questioning why it took over 70 minutes between when the gunman entered the classroom on May 24 and when he was killed by law enforcement.
Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde, Texas, school district’s police chief, was placed on administrative leave effective Wednesday. Lt. Mike Hernandez has been selected to assume Arredondo’s role.
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State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat who represents the district that includes Uvalde, filed a lawsuit against the state’s Department of Public Safety on Wednesday, claiming it ignored his previous request for information regarding its investigation into law enforcement’s response to the shooting. Gutierrez said his May 31 records inquiry requesting “several categories of information” received no response.
