Texas Governor Greg Abbott had said earlier that the suspect had also died, adding that “it is believed that responding officers killed him.”
New York: An 18 -year-old gunman opened fire at the Robb Elementary School, a school in Texas, and killed at least 19 children and three adults. When the police tried to arrest him, he died, said reports.
NYT reported that the slayings took place just before noon at Robb Elementary School, where second through fourth graders in Uvalde, a small city west of San Antonio, were preparing to start summer break this week. At least one teacher was among the adults killed, and several other children were wounded.
As terrified parents in Uvalde waited for word of their children’s safety and law enforcement officials raced to piece together how the attack had transpired, the mass shooting was deepening national political debate over gun laws and the prevalence of weapons, said NYT. Ten days earlier, a gunman fatally shot 10 people inside a Buffalo, New York, grocery store.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott had said earlier that the suspect had also died, adding that “it is believed that responding officers killed him.”
The attack took place in Uvalde – a small community about an hour from the Mexican border. The attack was the deadliest US school shooting in years.
Abbott, while addressing a news conference, named the suspect as Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old local resident and a US citizen.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden asked Americans to stand up to the gun lobby and pressure members of Congress to pass sensible gun law.
Quoting Biden, Reuters reported, “I hoped when I became president I would not have to do this, again,” a visibly shaken Biden said, decrying the death of “beautiful, innocent” second, third and fourth graders in “another massacre.”
Their parents “will never see their child again, never have them jump in bed and cuddle with them,” he said.
