Two days before the start of summer break, an 18-year-old man opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, killing 14 students and one teacher, Gov. Greg Abbott said.[/b]

Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police Chief Pete Arredondo said there also were multiple injuries from a “mass casualty incident” at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. The gunman is believed to have acted alone and is dead, he said.

Arredondo[i][/i] declined to provide further details or take questions.

The suspected shooter is from Uvalde, Abbott said. He was identified as Salvador Ramos, according to officials.

“It’s believed that he abandoned his vehicle and entered into the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde with a handgun and he may have also had a rifle, but that is not yet confirmed according to my most recent report. He shot and killed, horrifically, incomprehensively, fourteen students and killed a teacher,” he said.

The setting of an elementary school called to mind the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut in 2012 that left 26 people dead, including 20 children between 6 and 7 years old.

Law enforcement personnel stand outside Robb Elementary School following the shooting.
Law enforcement personnel stand outside Robb Elementary School following the shooting.
Dario Lopez-Mills/AP
Uvalde Memorial Hospital spokesperson Tom Nordwick earlier said that two people died in the school shooting and that 13 children and a man in his 40s were being treated for injuries.

University Hospital in San Antonio said in a tweet that they received a child and an adult from the school shooting. The adult, a 66-year-old woman, is in critical condition, the hospital said in a tweet. A call went out for help for an active shooter situation, according to a law enforcement official.

US Customs and Border Protection, which is the largest law enforcement agency in the area, assisted with the response. A CBP agent was shot in the head. His injuries are non-life-threatening, according to the official.

The governor said two law enforcement officers were hit by bullets, but didn’t have serious injuries.

People wait outside the city civic center where students had been transported after the shooting.
People wait outside the city civic center where students had been transported after the shooting.
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Videos taken by a bystander, Isaias Melendez, show scores of armed officers at the scene while others flee the school.


The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are assisting local police with the investigation.

President Joe Biden has ordered US flags on federal grounds to be flown at half staff until sunset on Saturday to honor the victims of this “senseless acts of violence.” The President will address the nation Tuesday night at 8:15 p.m. ET.

30th shooting at a K-12 school this year
This marks at least the 30th shooting at a K-12 school in 2022. Excluding Tuesday’s shooting, so far in 2022 there have been at least 38 shootings in K-12 schools, colleges and universities, resulting in at least 10 deaths and 51 injuries.


The Texas shooting is the deadliest US school shooting since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018, when 17 people were killed.

Robb Elementary teaches second through fourth grades and had 535 students in the 2020-21 school year, according to state data. About 90% of students are Hispanic and about 81% are economically disadvantaged, the data shows. Thursday was set to be the last day of school before the summer break.

The school district said it is canceling all school activities following the shooting.

Uvalde County, located about 85 miles west of San Antonio, had a population of about 25,000 as of the 2020 Census.

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Terrible !

Gunmen everywhere

I say nah craze world we dey ...�

INSTEAD OF BIDEN 2 SIT DOWN 4 HOUSE LOOK AFTER HIM CHILDREN, HE IS BUSY TRAVELLING THE WORLD AIMLESSLY LYK BUHARI UNTOP PUTIN MATTA

Oh No not again.

Things got worse when the governor of that state signed into law that you can buy a gun with no permit.
Even when you have to have a permit before purchasing a gun, there were mad shootings everywhere, not to talk of when you can just walked into a gun shop to purchase a gun as if you are buying tomatoes.

So sad.
Killings of 26 kids between 6 to 10 years old and 6 adults.
Just the last week they have to be in school before going for summer break!
What a sad story.

cococandy:
That’s Republicans and their gun madness for you

You so right sis.
We heard Gov Abbot passed the gun without license bill into law late last year, and it has been crazy since then.
Watching him last night on CNN talking about the shooting....just the normal bla bla bla .....

RIP KIDS.

The 18-year-old gunman shot his grandmother before driving to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and, armed with a rifle, overpowered a school officer and entered the school.

Face of the murderer.
May he rot in hell.
Good to know he was shot dead too.

U.S.A is dealing with their own version of Buhari. Insecurity everywhere

R. I. P

This is terrible, honestly.

This is why the use of firearms should be regulated in the US, anyone above 18 in most states can just wake and decide to buy a gun for no reason.

Human lives don't mean anything to people anymore.. God it's about time you grant us intromission..

More mass shooting to come. It’s inevitable.

You can’t be doing the same thing and expect different results.

If the second amendment is not reviewed, then the worst is yet to happen.

Human safety has been politicized by greedy and corrupt politicians, who get gains and grants from the NRA.

Abortion Laws? Gra Gra
Formula? Gra Gra
Gun laws? Land of the free.

Radarada.

Just another day in USA.

Screw that boy Salvador Ramos
A fvcking coward

Between Biden and the dullard I don't know who's worse, spits

NO LET US FOCUS ON UKRAINE

No place is safe. May the Almighty console the family of the victims. People would find it difficult that a bridge could collapse in America. I was travelling in a greyhound from Chicago to New York City ( NY Port Authority to be precise) in 2018. As we approached new Jersey, a bridge collapsed ahead and vehicles were dropping on the ground. I was like , if it were to be in Nigeria now, the whole world would have known that instant and be blaming mungo park and Lord Lugard for allowing such to happen.

We should just be praying for God's protection everywhere and anywhere we go. The idiot was apprehended and that's one of the beauties of America...a country where it's almost impossible to commit a crime and get away with it. Unlike here where fulani killers and UGM would be wreaking havoc and be beheading people in communities, including in the hometown of our dear president and war general yet, no arrests would be made and they keep having a field day. I'm still waiting for what whoever emerges the apc flagbearer would use as his campaign points and achievements of the apc to warrant retaining them in power.

Rifles are so easy to access in the USA. So sad

Gun Control.

That's what happens when every m0r0n can have access to a gun. America needs to control their gun laws tbh

Obodo oyibo, lol they're used to it

Even in saner clines?

The world has gone mad again

.

IPOB terrorists everywhere even in Yankee.

Won't change a thing. Thoughts and prayers and then they move to next shooting.

Well theirs a is a known gunman unlike ours which is not known

America is too busy minding what happens in another man's country that they barely have time to talk about an impending civil war on their own soil.

Trump tried to warn them and they'll went for his jugular.



Saner clime crew over to you guys