PROVED GUILTY BY COPS UNTIL PROVED INNOCENT

REVEALED: The surveillance footage that EXONERATES Uvalde teacher falsely accused of leaving door open for shooter who says her mental and physical health collapsed after being made scapegoat in coverup

Uvalde police initially accused Elementary School teacher Emilia 'Amy' Marin of propping open the door Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, entered through. Cops later retracted their accusation against Marin, and clarified that she shut the door but that it did not lock automatically as it was supposed to 

 

By Alex Oliveira

 

Daily Mail

October 24, 2022

 

 

               Uvalde police initially accused Elementary School teacher Emilia 'Amy' Marin of propping open the door Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, entered through. Marin spoke on Good Morning America, and described how the days of blame after the shooting left her mental and physical health shattered

 

Newly revealed footage exonerates the Robb Elementary School teacher who cops initially said left the school's back door open and allowed mass shooter Salvador Ramos to gain entry and begin his rampage. 

The footage shows that Emilia 'Amy' Marin actually took the time to kick away a rock that was propping open the door and close it behind her, despite officials' claims of her negligence. 

The revelations come after DailyMail.com revealed that Marin was left traumatized when authorities blamed her for allowing Ramos to get into the school.

Police later clarified that Marin did close the door, and that Ramos was able to gain entry because the door did not lock behind her as it was supposed to. The security footage, taken from inside the Robb Elementary school obtained by ABC News, backs Marin's innocence. 

The clip showed Marin, a coordinator for afterschool programs, pushing a cart out of the school's propped back door as she helped another faculty member load food into the school to prepare for an end-of-year party.

Moments later Marin was seen sprinting into the school to grab her phone and dial 911 after seeing Ramos' car wreck across the street.

'My first thought was, somebody had a heart attack, because he was coming like 80 miles an hour, she recalled to ABC News. 'And then he hit the rail and crashed into a ditch. I'm running to him to help him.'

After crashing his car, Ramos emerged from the wreckage and began to open fire. Marin could then be seen on the security footage rushing back into the school and clearly kicking away the rock which had been holding the door open. 

The door swung shut behind her, and then she could be heard yelling frantically into the phone that Ramos had a gun and was shooting. 

'The kids are running! The kids are running!' she could be heard telling the 911 operator.

 

The back door to the Robb Elementary School was initially propped open as Marin and another teacher loaded food into the school for an end of year party

 

Once Marin saw Ramos open fire after he wrecked his car, Marin could be seen clearly kicking away the rock that had been used to prop open the school's back door 

 

Marin runs into the school while reporting the shooter to 911. The door is seen to be clearly shut behind her

 

Three days after the massacre, Texas Department of Public Safety Colonel Steven McCraw said in a press conference that an unnamed teacher had allowed Ramos to gain entry by leaving the school's back door propped open.

'The teacher runs to the room, 132, to retrieve a phone, and that same teacher walks back to the exit door and the door remains propped open,' McCraw said in a press conference.

Days later the DPS retracted McCraw's statement and admitted that Marin did close the door, but that it didn't lock as it was supposed to.

'She came back out while on her phone, she heard someone yell, 'He has a gun!,' said DPS chief communications officer Travis Considine on May 31. 'She saw him jump the fence and that he had a gun, so she ran back inside,' removing the rock when she did.'

'We did verify she closed the door,' he said. 'The door did not lock. We know that much and now investigators are looking into why it did not lock.'

 

 

Despite the retraction, that week of blame proved to be brutally traumatizing to Marin.

'He said a teacher left the door propped open,' she told ABC News. 'And I looked at my daughter and I said, that's a lie.'

'I am suffering mentally, of course, emotionally,' she said 'I still don't sleep.'

Marin said she was 'vilified' by her own community after the DPS' statement. 

'People think she needs to be fired for what she did leaving the door open, but I know what I did.' 

Marin said those days of blame have left her with a stutter and suffering from a tremor.

In March, Marin's attorney said she was psychologically scarred and seeking neurological treatment.  

'She can't stop shaking,' Flanary told CNN. 'It's traumatic for her when it's insinuated that she's involved,' Flanary said, 'She's heartbroken.'

 

Salvador Ramos, 18, (pictured) was eventually shot dead by border patrol, over an hour after entering the school 

 

Scores of officers responded to the scene of the shooting in May, but it took them 77 minutes before they took action and shot Ramos

 

Marin said she felt she was used as a 'scapegoat' for the tragedy, even while a legion of police officers and emergency responders stood by for hours while Ramos was holed up in the classroom and still gunning down children.

Police released the footage documenting how cops stood back for 77 minutes as Ramos stalked across the parking lot at Robb Elementary School and broke into the building carrying a rifle. 

The first law enforcement officials arrive on the scene just three minutes after Ramos entered the building, and are seen running towards the classrooms - but soon turn around as they start getting fired on.

After about 30 minutes, officers with rifles could be seen arriving on the scene, and the first officers with ballistic shields arrives in under 20 minutes.

Dozens of officers could be seen standing in the hallway, with 13 carrying long rifles, as Ramos continued to fire.

None of the officers entered the classroom for more than an hour. 

Officials have admitted that the situation could have been stopped within just three minutes after images from surveillance footage inside the school showed heavily-armed police officers holding ballistic shields aiming their rifles down the hallway.

The officers were stopped by Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief Peter Arredondo, who claimed the suspect had barricaded himself inside and said he needed a key to get. Arredondo was fired in August.

Investigations have been underway into at least seven of the officers who were on the scene. 

On Friday, Sergeant Juan Maldonado became the first state trooper to be fired by officials. He was the highest-ranking state trooper to initially respond to the scene, and a 23-year veteran of the force.