Nineteen young children and two adults have died in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas.

The gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School - which teaches children aged seven to 10 - in the city of Uvalde before he was killed by law enforcement, officials said.

The 18-year-old suspect had a handgun, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and high-capacity magazines, investigators say.

The teenager is suspected of shooting his grandmother before the rampage.

Local media report he may have been a high school student in the area.

Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief of Police Pete Arredondo said the shooting began at 11:32 local time on Tuesday, and that investigators believe the attacker "did act alone during this heinous crime".

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the shooter, whom he named as Salvador Ramos, abandoned a vehicle before entering the school to "horrifically, incomprehensibly" open fire.

One of the adults killed was a teacher, who has been named in US media as Eva Mireles. Her page on the school district's website said she has a daughter in college and loved running and hiking.

Nearly 500 pupils are enrolled in the predominantly Hispanic school around 85 miles (135km) west of the city of San Antonio
The Associated Press news agency reports that a US Border Patrol official who was nearby when the shooting began rushed into the school and shot and killed the gunman, who was behind a barricade.

Border Patrol is a federal agency that guards US ports of entry. Uvalde, which is fewer than 80 miles from the border with Mexico, is home to a Border Patrol station.

Two border agents were reportedly shot in an exchange with the gunman. One agent was shot in the head, officials say, adding that both were now in a stable condition in hospital.

According to CBS News, the attacker was wearing body armour as he carried out the attack. Another 18-year-old who is suspected of attacking a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on 14 May was also wearing body armour and carrying a semi-automatic rifle - both of which are commercially available in the US.

The Uvalde Memorial Hospital posted on Facebook earlier that 13 children had been taken to hospital "via ambulances or buses".

A 66-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl were in a critical condition at a hospital in San Antonio, University Health hospital officials said.
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This is the 9th mass shooting in 7 days

The 19 children were aged 7-10

Thank God that it is not a Muslim, they will have tag him terrorist. What will they call their own white boy killer. Americans are all hypocrite

Jesus Christ, walahi they are sick in dat country,19 fvcking children

youngsahito:
Thank God that it is not a Muslim, they will have tag him terrorist. What will they call their own white boy killer. Americans are all hypocrite

No wonder they are always encouraging war,this people are sick in the head and they need to be avoided at all cost, my guy was shot last month in Chicago because another guy wanted his shoes.
How can a child have unlimited access to a machine gun,last week a racist kid killed 11black people in Chicago and now another kid slaughtered 19 children and 2 adults

When e no be day Dem curse me,why I go go America, I dey craze

This 10year old child is one of the victims

This morning my wife woke me up from bed 5am and she said we need to start talking about relocating elsewhere

America is just Iraq with 24hours electricity.before the endeof today I can bet my balls there would be another school shooting

Just so you know this is the 204th mass shootings in the US this Year alone

Civilians in the USA own more than 400 million firearms

This is the country some ediots here on Nairaland are quick to accuse you of being denied visa whenever you speak ill of America. Tufieeh!!!

As a black man and as an innocent and harmless citizen, you are more likely to be killed either by racist police or crazy white supremacists and drug infested psychos in the U.S than any other developed and even developing nations in the world.

It's only an insane society that allows the free purchase and carrying about of automatic rifles and heavy weapons capable of killing people enmass.

Crazy country.

RIP to the dead.

In life and human safety index the USA is ranked 88 out of 122 countries

Ishitinyourlife:
Just so you know this is the 204th mass shootings in the US this Year alone

Is crazy. America is not by any standard safe for sane thinking people.

Discombulator:

No wonder they are always encouraging war,this people are sick in the head and they need to be avoided at all cost, my guy was shot last month in Chicago because another guy wanted his shoes.
How can a child have unlimited access to a machine gun,last week a racist kid killed 11black people in Chicago and now another kid slaughtered 19 children and 2 adults

Everything about America is violence, they need to do work in their own territory b4 going to international conflict.

Appleyard:
This is the country some ediots here on Nairaland are quick to accuse you of being denied visa whenever you speak ill of America. Tufieeh!!!

As a black man and as an innocent and harmless citizen, you are more likely to be killed either by racist police or crazy white supremacists and drug infested psychos in the U.S than any other developed and even developing nations in the world.

It's on an insane society that allows the free purchase and carrying about of automatic rifles and heavy weapons capable of killing people enmass.

Crazy country.

RIP to the dead.

I'm getting my family out of this country by the end of the year by God's grace,I can't take this anymore,I can't stop staring at my kids since last night

shogsman:

I'm getting my family out of this country by the end of the year by God's grace,I can't take this anymore,I can't stop staring at my kids since last night

Egbon I take God beg you, Japa for your life, it's better to live in the middle east sef

Ishitinyourlife:
Just so you know this is the 204th mass shootings in the US this Year alone

How can a civilized society with people with actual brains record this kind of shit, if there's this much mass shootings, how many gun homicide do they record yearly

Discombulator:

How can a civilized society with people with actual brains record this kind of shit, if there's this much mass shootings, how many gun homicide do they record yearly

Around 26,000 yearly

Like I always say na person wey dey craze and watch too much Hollywood they migrate to America

Discombulator:

No wonder they are always encouraging war,this people are sick in the head and they need to be avoided at all cost, my guy was shot last month in Chicago because another guy wanted his shoes.
How can a child have unlimited access to a machine gun,last week a racist kid killed 11black people in Chicago and now another kid slaughtered 19 children and 2 adults

Is a crazy society out there. I pity gullible Nigerians who are zombified by the American lifestyle they watch in Hollywood. The fact is, the American lifestyle in reality is unsafe, unhealthy, destructive and a complete opposite of the life you experience in other saner, developed countries of the world. The American so-called social and democratic system is a violence manufacturing machine, a recipe for unending social and health related disasters.

The lunatic shooter killed his grandma too before he left home

Carloslehder:
Like I always say na person wey dey craze and watch too much Hollywood they migrate to America

Period. I would rather remain in my poverty stricken naija and still keep my life than to migrate to America where that life can be taken away gruesomely.

Appleyard:


Period. I would rather remain in my poverty stricken naija and still keep my life than to migrate to America where that life can be taken away gruesomely.

The day I made up my mind that I would rather go to North Korea than USA is when I was reaching about gun violence there on my project I swear to God go to ordinary YouTube and you can get 50,000 videos of individual people getting killed in the USA, I'm talking about live videos of shootings and homicides caught my CCTV,you can watch live shooting videos in USA back to back everyday of your life and you will never run out of videos.
Yesterday alone I watched over 19 videos of murders there and this all happened yesterday

Carloslehder:

The day I made up my mind that I would rather go to North Korea than USA is when I was reaching about gun violence there on my project I swear to God go to ordinary YouTube and you can get 50,000 videos of individual people getting killed in the USA, I'm talking about live videos of shootings and homicides caught my CCTV,you can watch live shooting videos in USA back to back everyday of your life and you will never run out of videos.
Yesterday alone I watched over 19 videos of murders there and this all happened yesterday

As an American I can boldly tell you're correct, I myself I've witnessed over 18 killings here myself, I'm talking about people getting shot to death. When I was in CHI town there was no week we didn't have to take cover from bullets

I still remember sandy hook ten years ago when 20children were killed,I remember Vegas when a man killed 69people and wounded 435.

I remember

Parkland shooting
El Paso shooting
Pittsburgh shooting
Las Vegas shooting
Orlando shooting
Buffalo shooting
Fort Hood shooting
Aurora shooting
Virginia Tech shooting
San Bernadino shooting
Columbine shooting
Boulder shooting
Sutherland Springs shooting.

This are just the very few I remember o

shogsman:
This morning my wife woke me up from bed 5am and she said we need to start talking about relocating elsewhere

Hell, is time you consider her request especially if you have children. That place ain't safe for any one.

Ishitinyourlife:
America is just Iraq with 24hours electricity.before the endeof today I can bet my balls there would be another school shooting

Lmao

This are Thier leaders o,awon werey

Ishitinyourlife:
Civilians in the USA own more than 400 million firearms

Blood of God1 No wonder their foreign policy is geared towards fighting endless wars all over the globe.