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Officials believe the gunman, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, shot and killed his grandmother before going to the school where he himself was killed by police.
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May 24, 2022 • 7 minutes ago • 6 minutes reading • 371 comments People are reacting outside Sgt Willie at Leon Civic Center, where students were transported from Robb Elementary School after a mass shooting , in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. Photo by Marco Bello / Reuters
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UVALDE – A gunman opened fire in a South Texas elementary school on Tuesday, killing at least 18 children and an adult, before dying as well, officials said, the latest massacre when the United States is hit by an epidemic of armed violence.
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Gov. Greg Abbott said the suspect, identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, was apparently killed by police officers who responded to the scene and that two officers were shot dead, although the governor went to say his wounds were not serious.
Authorities said the suspect acted alone.
The confusion of the moment caused the death toll to vary until the state attorney general’s office in an official statement counted the lives of 18 children and two adults, including the shooter. Judging by the grades of the students enrolled in the school, the children were between 7 and 10 years old.
The motive for the massacre was not immediately known.
The carnage came just 10 days after 10 people were killed in Buffalo, New York, in a predominantly black neighborhood. Authorities have charged an 18-year-old man who is said to have traveled hundreds of miles to Buffalo and opened fire with an assault rifle at a grocery store.
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Official details remained unclear about the circumstances of the late-morning shooting at Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.
Abbott said the suspect was believed to have abandoned his vehicle and entered the school armed with a pistol, and possibly a rifle, before opening fire.
A boy gets on a school bus while police guard the scene of a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022. Photo by Marco Bello / Reuters
Texas Department of Homeland Security sergeant Erick Estrada, who appeared on CNN for an interview, said police saw the suspect get out of a car that crashed near the school, carrying a rifle and a backpack, and “engaged” with him before entering the south side of the school and began firing. Estrada said the gunman was wearing armor.
Investigators believe Ramos shot and killed his grandmother before going to school, CBS News reported, citing unidentified police sources.
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“It is reported that the subject shot his grandmother just before entering the school,” Abbott told reporters. “I have no further information on the connection between these two shootings.”
San Antonio University Hospital said on Twitter that it had received two patients from the shooting in Uvalde, a 66-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl, both included in critical condition.
U.S. President Joe Biden, who ordered the flags to be flown at half-mast until sunset daily until May 28 in observation of the tragedy, was scheduled to address the nation on Tuesday’s shooting at evening, the White House said.
Texas school students are second-, third- and fourth-graders, according to Pete Arredondo, head of the Uvalde Independent School District Police Department, who also addressed reporters.
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Hours after the shooting, police had cordoned off the school with yellow tape. Police vehicles and emergency vehicles were scattered around the perimeter of the school grounds. The uniformed personnel were in small groups, some in camouflage carrying semi-automatic weapons.
The Texas crash is the latest in a series of mass shootings at American schools that have shocked the world and fueled a heated debate between supporters of tighter gun control and those who oppose it. to any legislation that may compromise the constitutional right of Americans to bear arms.
The shooting in Texas was one of the deadliest in an American school since a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, in an attack on the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December 2012. In 2018, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 students and educators.
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A boy looks through a glass window from inside the Willie Ssgt of Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, on the 24th. May 2022. Photo by Marco Bello / Reuters
Firearms became the leading cause of death for American children and adolescents in 2020, surpassing motor vehicle accidents, according to a University of Michigan research letter published last month in New England Journal of Medicine.
The horrors of the day were reflected on the Robb Elementary School Facebook page.
Earlier this week, his posts featured students ’usual activities: a trip to the zoo for sophomores and an appointment for a gifted and talented shop window. But on Tuesday, a note was released at 11:43 a.m.: “Please know that Robb Elementary is currently blocked due to gunfire in the area. Students and staff are safe. in the building “.
A second post was more explicit: “There’s an active shooter at Robb Elementary. Law enforcement is in place.” Administrators asked parents to stay away. And finally, a note was posted informing parents that they could meet their children in the civic center of the small town.
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The shooting took place in the town of Uvalde, a community of about 16,000 people 85 miles west of San Antonio, the second largest city in the state of Lone Star.
“We are in the process of obtaining detailed information on the subject, its motive, the types of weapons used, the legal authority to possess them and to conduct a comprehensive investigation and reconstruction of the crime scene,” he said. say the governor.
Active shooting incidents in the U.S. have doubled in the past five years. Each calls for stricter national arms controls, but the legislation has not been passed by Congress. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden visited Buffalo, New York, following a mass shooting that killed 10 people inside a supermarket. This alleged gunman is also 18 years old.
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The issue of arms control has divided the nation, with some arguing for stricter laws and others defending their constitutional right to bear arms. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether states should allow people to carry a gun in public to defend themselves.
Children board a school bus as law enforcement personnel watch the scene of an alleged shooting near Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022. Photo by Marco Bello / Reuters
The Texas school shooting comes days before Abbott, Sen. Ted Cruz and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to speak at a National Rifle Association conference in Houston.
Texas is very much in favor of gun rights, and Abbott signed legislation last year that allowed Texans to carry weapons without any license.
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A list of recent mass shootings in the United States:
The UValde crash is the latest in a series of high-profile mass shootings. The United States experienced 61 incidents of “active shooters” last year, a sharp increase in the number of attacks, casualties and geographic distribution since 2021 and the highest number in more than 20 years, the FBI reported this week.
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– BUFFALO, May 14, 2022 – A white gunman killed 10 blacks inside a supermarket in a racial attack. He was charged and remains in jail without bail.
– NEW YORK CITY, April 12, 2022 – In one of the most violent attacks in the history of New York’s traffic system, 23 people were injured when a 62-year-old man detonated a smoke bomb and opened fire in a meter. He was arrested the next day.
– OXFORD, November 30, 2021 – Four students were killed and seven others were injured when a teenager set fire to a high school in Oxford, Michigan.
– INDIANAPOLIS, April 16, 2021 – A former FedEx employee who had been in psychiatric care shot and killed eight others and injured several others at an Indiana shipping facility before committing suicide.
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– LOS ANGELES, March 31, 2021 – Four people were killed, one of them a child, in a shooting at an office building in the suburbs of Los Angeles before the suspect was arrested.
– BOULDER, March 22, 2021 – A mass shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, left 10 dead, including a police officer.
– ATLANTA, March 16, 2021 …