More information has come out about the Uvalde school shooter, as a Texas lawmaker shared during a hearing on Tuesday that the attacker used blood from one of the victims to write “LOL” on a classroom whiteboard.
The information was shared by state Rep. Joe Moody (D-El Paso), who is taking part in an investigation into the massacre.
“The attacker scooped up the blood of his victims and smeared it into his disgusting message,” Moody said. “What he wrote in innocent blood next to that was the phrase ‘LOL.’”
The hearing touched on numerous topics, starting Tuesday morning and going past midnight into the first hours of Wednesday. The state House committee heard testimony from grieving families who pleaded with lawmakers to enact stricter gun laws.
Javier Cazares, who lost his 9-year-old daughter Jacklyn in the shooting, was among the parents who testified.
“My daughter tried to buy Super Glue at Walmart the other day and was flagged as being under 18 … What’s wrong with this picture?” Cazares asked. “I saw my daughter draped in a white sheet, cold and alone in an operating room.”
Texas legislators are considering new legislation that would raise the purchase age for certain semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21. The families who testified during the hearing supported the bill, as they continue to ask for some response from lawmakers following last year’s shooting.
“Did you imagine what it would feel like to bury your child?” Kimberly Rubio, the mother of Alexi, asked lawmakers during her testimony. “Sit with that image as we do because only when you imagine will you, as lawmakers, take the necessary action.”
However, not everyone at the hearing was in support of the legislation, including Stephen Willeford, who is known for confronting a gunman at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, with his own rifle in 2017. His actions helped disrupt the gunman, who killed 26.
Sutherland argued that the legislation would not stop those who want to carry out these atrocities from doing so.
“If you think he couldn’t have found a gun other ways or waited until he was 21 to do his murder spree, you are wrong,” Willeford said of the Uvalde shooter.
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