Parent Detained During Shooting At Texas Elementary School: Report

UVALDE, TX — A Robb Elementary School parent was briefly arrested after she urgently pressed police officers to confront a gunman during a shooting at the school Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Angeli Rose Gomez, the mother of a second- and third-grader at Robb Elementary, was among several parents urging police outside the school to enter the building. As the urging turned from polite to more urgent, federal marshals put her in handcuffs and told her she was being arrested for intervening in an active investigation, she told the Wall Street Journal.

Gomez convinced Uvalde police officers she knew to release her, and once she was out of handcuffs, she jumped the fence, ran into the school and retrieved her children, she said.

Law enforcement agencies are facing criticism for their response to the shooting, which killed 19 students and two teachers and injured 17 others.

Many parents and onlookers were shouting for officers to confront the shooter, according to reports.