The death toll in Texas elementary school shooting has risen to 19 students, a teacher, and another adult.
All victims were killed by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who shot his grandmother before he went to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
The teen, who was wearing body armor before opening fire at the school, was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent who rushed into the school with a tactical support team while officers engaged the gunman.
Governor Greg Abbott said that Ramos, who was born in North Dakota, was a student at Uvalde High School.
CNN’s Ed Lavandera said that the victims were aged between 7 and eleven.
Speaking at a press briefing before the death toll rose to 19 students, Abbott said that the gunman “shot and killed, horrifically and incomprehensibly, 14 students and killed a teacher.
“These are families that are in mourning right now. And the state of Texas is in mourning with them.”
The shooting, which started around 11:32 am, was the deadliest incident since 14 high school students and 3 adult stuff died in Parkland, Florida shooting in 2018.
Robb Elementary School is located in Uvalde city, hometown of Matthew McConaughey, about 80 miles west of San Antonio and 60 miles east of the Mexican border.
It has 600 students enrolled.
Ramos’s social media accounts were filled with pictures of guns, which he purchased legally when he turned 18, said state senator Roland Gutierrez.
The Chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, Pete Arrendondo, said that the gunman ‘is deceased.’
“We are not looking for another individual in relation to this case,” he added.
Senator Ted Cruz also took to Twitter and wrote that he and his wife are praying for the students and families of the victims.
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