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.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the carnage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde was carried out by a local 18-year-old student,, who was shot and killed by law enforcement. After Ramos shot his grandmother at her home, local law enforcement got a call about a car crash involving an armed man close to the school, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Lt. Chris Olivarez said Tuesday evening. “As soon as he made entry into the school, he started shooting children, teachers, whoever was in his way, he was shooting everybody,” he said. Ramos, who was armed with a handgun and possibly a rifle, was wearing body armor, he added. 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. Of the weapons posted, one appeared to be a Daniel Defense AR-15 with a high-capacity magazine. A TikTok account with the same handle and profile picture as the Instagram, also disappeared in the minutes following the Texas governor’s press conference, featured only a clip of a mobile game and the line “Kids be scared IRL.” Both accounts used the bio line TheBiggestOpp. The image of the guns tagged a teenager in Los Angeles, who shared a story on her own account indicating she didn’t know the shooter, including apparent direct messages he sent her requesting she share the photos and cryptically referring to a “secret” he wanted to share.allegedly killed 10 people in an upstate New York supermarket 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. At a Tuesday evening briefing, Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo said the shooting unfolded at around 11:32 a.m. just two days before the start of summer vacation. All the injured students were in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades.Eva Mireles, a fourth-grade teacher, was identified by relatives as being among the slain adults. “I’m furious that these shootings continue. These children are innocent. Rifles should not be easily available to all. This is my hometown, a small community of less than 20,000. I never imagined this would happen to especially loved ones ... All we can do is pray hard for our country, state, schools, and especially the families of all,”Nikki Jackson was one of about 14 families waiting at the Uvalde Civic Center on Tuesday evening for updates from authorities on the missing. She feared the worst: That her nephew, Uziyah Garcia, was among the murdered children. 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.” When a group of dads left the building to search for kids, Jackson handed one of the men a picture of Uziyah, she said. “I’m just hoping he’s safe,” she told The Daily Beast. “They haven’t told us anything. They just have a bunch of us at the Civic Center waiting.” “My head is just not clear,” she added. “I just don’t understand how we don’t have any information in here, and yet the outside world is saying how many kids are dead, but the police won’t tell us anything. We have to see it on the media and the news first. They keep telling us there’s no information, that’s it.” “I’m just hoping they say my nephew is one of the kids who ran away,” Jackson continued, adding that Uziyah is her sister’s child, but lives in her home, and that she’s his guardian. Uziyah loves school, gaming, and playing basketball with his friends, Jackson said. His whole bedroom is decorated with Fortnite memorabilia.CEO Thomas Nordwick told The Daily Beast that the hospital received 15 children via ambulance or buses. Two were declared dead upon arrival, another two children were transferred by air ambulance to San Antonio, which is about 90 miles away, and others were still being treated. A male in his mid-40s was also treated for minor injuries, he said.it received two patients, a 66-year-old woman and 10-year-old girl, who were both in critical condition. Another local hospital said it was treating a child and an adult but didn’t provide details on their condition or injuries. In an emotional speech broadcast from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden wondered “where in God’s name is our backbone?”READ THIS LIST
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