Twenty-one people (19 school children and two adults) were confirmed dead after a gunman fired shots in a Texas primary school that teaches children aged seven to 10.
According to the police, the attack was carried out at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a small community in Texas South, a few days before the end of the school year and was carried out by a gunman identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who was shot dead by police.
Investigators revealed that Ramos was armed with a handgun, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and high-capacity magazines. He was suspected to have shot and killed his grandmother before embarking on the school-shooting spree.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief of Police Pete Arredondo said the shooting started at 11:32 local time on Tuesday and added that investigators believe the attacker “did act alone during this heinous crime”.
While reacting to the incident, the Governor of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott, said the gunman came out of a vehicle before he entered the school to “horrifically, incomprehensibly” open fire.
In a statement from the White House, President Joe Biden said he was “sick and tired” of responding to mass shootings while demanding gun control.
Biden said: “How many scores of little children who witnessed what happened – see their friends die, as if they’re in a battlefield, for God’s sake? They’ll live with it the rest of their lives,”
Biden later ordered that flags at the White House and other US federal buildings be flown at half-mast to honour the victims in Uvalde.
SUPPORT NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS
If you like our work and want to keep enjoying what we offer, kindly support us by donating to the Nigerian Canadian News through the button below.
