Beto O’Rourke, a democratic running for governor in Texas, interrupted governor Greg Abbott’s news conference on Tuesday’s school shooting, yelling out that the tragedy was ‘totally predictable’ and that the governor was ‘doing nothing.’

O’Rourke approached the stage as Abbott gave an update on Tuesday’s shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.

‘The time to stop the next shooting is now, and you are doing nothing,’ O’Rourke yelled. The Democrat was shouted down by several Texas officials on the stage with the Republican governor, with one calling him a ‘sick son of a B—-.’

O’Rourke, who has been a vocal advocate for gun control, was escorted out of the news conference by police. Outside, he spoke with reporters,

‘We owe those parents actions. I’ve talked to the parents in El Paso, I’ve talked to the parents in Santa Fe High School, I’ve talked to the parents in Midland Odessa,’ O’Rourke said, referencing other horrific school shootings in recent years.

‘Evil swept across Uvalde yesterday. Anyone who shoots his grandmother in the face has to have evil in his heart,’ Abbott said during the televised news conference. ‘But it is far more evil for someone to gun down little kids. It is intolerable and it is unacceptable for us to have in the state anybody who would kill little kids in our schools.’

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