19 children, three adults dead after gunman opens fire at a school in Texas

GOOBJOOG NEWS|TEXAS: A gunman killed 19 young children in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, in the deadliest US school shooting in years.

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 adding that “it is believed that responding officers killed him.”

Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez told CNN that three adults had also died in the attack, though it was unclear if that toll included the shooter.

Tuesday’s attack was the deadliest such incident since a shooting that took place in 2012 in Connecticut, in which 20 children and six staff were killed.

A shaken and emotional President Biden declared that it is “time to turn this pain into action” as he addressed the nation on Tuesday after the slaughter of 19 elementary school children and 2 adults in Uvalde, Texas.

Vice President Kamala also voiced her anger at the terrible events that unfolded on Tuesday.

‘Happens nowhere else. Enough is enough,” said Vice President Kamala Harris in the wake of the tragedy. “Our hearts keep getting broken.

“We have to have the courage to take action.”

Robb Elementary, which teaches more than 500, mostly Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students from second through fourth grade,was the scene of another brutal attack, 10 days after another horrific attack took place in a Buffalo supermarket that left 10 blacks dead.