UPDATE: The death toll in the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is now at least 19 students and two adults, including a fourth-grade teacher.
At least 19 children and two adults were dead after a teenage gunman shot his grandmother before opening fire at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday in the latest episode of mass gun violence to terrorize the country.
A Border Patrol agent who was in the area as the massacre unfolded was quick to spring into action, responding to the school without waiting for other officers to arrive,What appeared to be the shooter’s Instagram account, deleted shortly after Abbott identified him, featured photos and stories of automatic firearms—as well as selfies strongly resembling the mugshot of the killer shared by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
in what had been, until now, the deadliest mass shooting of the year. Tuesday’s horror is also the deadliest shooting at an elementary school since 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. The fourth-grader was in the classroom where the teacher was killed, she said. On Facebook, Jackson shared a desperate plea: “We are being told some kids ran from school into the houses in the neighborhood. Please share and if anyone sees him CONTACT ME ASAP.”
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