14 Students And A Teacher Shot Dead In Elementary School Mass Shooting In Texas: What We Know
This shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde which has also left a dozen hospitalized marks the 27th school shooting this year.
A bright sunny day turned into a nightmare on Tuesday after a gunman reportedly opened fire at an elementary school in South Texas. The devastating mass shooting killed 14 students, and one teacher before the suspect himself died, as confirmed by Governor Greg Abbott.
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According to Abbott, the gunman, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, apparently was killed by police officers responding to the scene. Two officers at the scene were struck by gunfire, though their injuries have not been reported as 'serious.'
Authorities said the suspect acted alone. Official details on the circumstances of the midday shooting remain sketchy immediate aftermath of the violence, which unfolded at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.
#UPDATE | An 18-year-old shooter shot and killed 14 students and 1 teacher. Shooter himself is deceased believably by responding officers: Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a presser https://t.co/bM0EY8b3Y7 pic.twitter.com/PpRqcw9zBJ
¡ª ANI (@ANI) May 24, 2022
"He shot and killed horrifically, incomprehensibly, 14 students and killed a teacher. Mr. Ramos, the shooter, is deceased, and it's believed that responding officers killed him," Abbott told a news briefing.
US | Deadliest school shooting since the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting. This is in Uvalde, Texas- a small town with not more than 20,000 people: CNN quotes Texas Governor Greg Abbott pic.twitter.com/IxznpHKUqW
¡ª ANI (@ANI) May 24, 2022
According to CNN, the gunman drove up to the school and entered with a rifle and a handgun.
This shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde which has also left a dozen hospitalized marks the 27th school shooting this year.
This devastating news comes just 10 days after a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y. claimed the lives of 10 people.
Reuters
The student body at the school consists of children in the second, third, and fourth grades, according to Pete Arredondo, chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, who also addressed reporters.
Texans are grieving for the victims of this senseless crime & for the community of Uvalde.
¡ª Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) May 24, 2022
Cecilia & I mourn this horrific loss & urge all Texans to come together.
I've instructed @TxDPS & Texas Rangers to work with local law enforcement to fully investigate this crime. pic.twitter.com/Yjwi8tDT1v
University Hospital in San Antonio took to Twitter to confirm that it had received two patients from the Uvalde shooting, one child and one adult.
Both patients, a 66-year-old woman, and a 10-year-old girl, were listed in critical condition.
Update on the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde: at University Hospital, one patient, a 66-year-old woman, is in critical condition.
¡ª University Health (@UnivHealthSA) May 24, 2022
The other patient is a 10-year-old girl, also in critical condition.
The shooting at an elementary school in Texas is another horrific incident in the recent history of mass shootings in U.S. schools.
All the cases have shocked the world, reigniting the fierce debate between advocates of tighter gun controls.
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The shooting in Texas was one of the deadliest at a U.S. school since a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children from five- to 10-years old, in a rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December 2012.
In another horrific case, in 2018, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 students and educators.
(This is a developing story, more details to be added.)
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