Los Angeles-area officials are renewomg calls for tougher gun control as news spread of the latest mass shooting in the United States -- this one at a Texas elementary school.
confirmed that 14 students, along with a teacher, were killed when a single gunman struck.
"He shot and killed -- horrifically, incomprehensibly -- 14 students and killed a teacher," Abbott said. "Mr. Ramos, the shooter, he himself is deceased. It is believed that responding officers killed him.
A candle was lit for each of the 11 victims killed during the two shootings: 10 in Buffalo on May 14 and one in Laguna Woods on May 15.
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