Beto O’Rourke shared a story while pushing his gun-grabbing comment about a mother who watched her 15 year old daughter bleed to death during the Odessa shooting.

“In Odessa, I met the mother of a 15 year old girl,” he says, “who was shot by an AR-15. And that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that AR-15 in Odessa, in Midland, there weren’t enough ambulances to get to them in time. Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47! We’re not going to allow it to be used against fellow Americans anymore!”

There was one 15 year old girl who was killed in Odessa, Leilah Hernandez. And according to the Washington Post, while she does appear to have died due to bleeding, it only took twenty minutes for the ambulance to arrive, with no mention about “not enough ambulances.”

The next shot, Leyva said, went through Leilah’s left shoulder, near her collarbone.

“Help me, help me,” was all the girl said as she died, Leyva said.

It took 20 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. Authorities put pressure on the wound from both sides, but “it was just too much blood coming out,” Leyva said. They told Nathan as they took him away in an ambulance: “Your sister did not make it.”

Scanning multiple articles on the shooting and the victims, I saw no account of there “not being enough ambulances.” The only reference to “not enough ambulances” pings O’Rourke’s comment at the debate last night. While one might see that in such a situation, ambulances might be taxed, in such a situation, first responders would prioritize the people most in need.

So unless the WaPo is wrong and the other media is ignoring the ambulance story, it would seem there’s a big question as to whether O’Rourke’s account is accurate.

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