24th May 2022
14 students and a teacher shot dead at a school in Texas
By NY Post
AP
A shooting at a Texas elementary school left 14 students and one teacher dead, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday afternoon.
The governor said the suspected gunman, a local who has been identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, has died, and is believed to have been killed by responding officers, the Associated Press reported.
Abbott said Ramos, reportedly a student at Uvalde High School, had a handgun and possibly a rifle, and he reportedly shot his grandmother before heading to Robb Elementary School, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 60 miles east of the southern border of Mexico and about 80 miles west of San Antonio, was placed on lockdown around 11:43 a.m. local time after gunshots were heard in the area, the school wrote on Facebook.
About a half-hour later, the school reported an “active shooter” at the location who was in police custody by 1:06 p.m., the Uvalde Police Department confirmed on Facebook.
Two children arrived at Uvalde Memorial Hospital dead from apparent gunshot wounds following the incident, a hospital official told The Post.
Another 14 students and a man in his 40s were treated at the emergency room either for gunshot wounds or “something related to the incident,” the official said. Of those 14, two were transferred to San Antonio and another patient is waiting to be transferred.
One child and a 66-year-old woman in critical condition were transported to University Health San Antonio, the only Level 1 trauma center for both adults and children in the region, the hospital wrote on Twitter. The child’s condition was not immediately clear and it’s also unclear if those two patients were transferred from Uvalde Memorial Hospital.
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