Two years after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, the government cover-up continues

Friday marked the two-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. Nineteen students and two teachers were killed and 17 others were injured.

While officials from the Democratic and Republican parties and local, state and federal law enforcement continue to cover up the causes of the massacre – both its origins and the immediate response to it – families are still grieving the loss of their loved ones, angry and frustrated by the lack of accountability for the deadliest school shooting in the state of Texas.

The city of Uvalde, the state of Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice have conducted official investigations that include detailed reports that conclude there were catastrophic failures by law enforcement during the shootings, but family members have been stonewalled and no one has been held accountable for the fatal shooting.

On the day of the shooting, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a former student at Robb Elementary, shot his grandmother before driving her truck into a ravine on school grounds. He exited the vehicle with a Daniel Defense AR-15 assault rifle, jumped a fence and entered the school through an unlocked door at 11:33 a.m.

After walking down a hallway, Ramos fired shots from outside two classrooms. He then entered and exited both classrooms, firing more than 100 shots at students and teachers. For 77 minutes, police officers spent more resources trying to contain angry parents trying to save their children from mass murder than trying to stop the gunman.

On Friday, the victims' families filed lawsuits in California and Texas against social media company Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), Activision (maker of the video game “Call of Duty”) and Daniel Defense (maker of the DDM4-V7 rifle) that Ramos used in the shootings.

Two days before the lawsuit was filed, a group of 19 families agreed to a $2 million settlement with the city of Uvalde. That's about $100,000 per family, but it's completely inadequate for those who lost their nine- and ten-year-old children.

As Veronica Mata, the mother of 10-year-old victim Tess Marie Mata, told ABC News, her daughter's death feels even more “real” two years later. Ms. Mata continued, “The reality hits us that Tess is no longer with us. She's gone and she's never coming back.”