BREAKING: At least 14 students and a teacher are dead after a mass shooting at Texas Elementary School.
At least 14 students and a teacher are dead after a teenage gunman ran onto the grounds of an elementary school in Texas while fleeing from cops on Tuesday afternoon. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the horrific incident at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde was carried out by a local 18-year-old student who also died.
The assailant abandoned his vehicle and entered into the school with a handgun and possibly a rifle, Abbott said. “He shot and killed, horrifically and incomprehensibly, 14 students and killed a teacher,” Abbott said. He also fatally shot his grandmother, Abbott added. Uvalde school officials initially said around 12:30 p.m. that a shooting had happened off-campus and that the assailant had run onto school grounds and barricaded himself, forcing students to be evacuated. Uvalde Police said about an hour later that he had been taken into custody.that it received 13 children via ambulance or buses. Two were declared dead upon arrival but the hospital did not say what their injuries were. Another two children were transferred to San Antonio, which is about 90 miles away, and one child is pending transfer, the hospital said. Another local hospital said it was treating a child and an adult but didn’t provide details on their condition or injuries. A nearby business owner told 1200 News Radio that he saw a suspect exchange gunfire with law enforcement before running onto school grounds. He recounted seeing kids being evacuated through windows.
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