WASHINGTON, 25 May 2022, (TON): A teenage gunman killed 18 young children in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas, in the deadliest US school shooting in years.
The attack in Uvalde, Texas, a small community about an hour from the Mexican border is the latest in a spree of deadly shootings in America, where horror at the cycle of gun violence has failed to spur action to end it.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, addressing a news conference, said the 18-year-old gunman was believed to have shot his grandmother before heading to Robb Elementary School at around noon, abandoning his vehicle and entering with a handgun, and possibly also a rifle.
The governor said “the suspect, whom he named as Salvador Ramos, a local resident and a US citizen, was also dead.”
He added that it is believed that responding officers killed him.
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