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Wednesday 25 May 2022
Texas governor: 15 killed in school shooting; gunman dead

Associated Press 16,000 people and is the
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — seat of government for
An 18-year-old gunman Uvalde County. The town
opened fire Tuesday at a is about 75 miles (120 kilo-
Texas elementary school, meters) from the border
killing 14 children, one with Mexico. Robb Elemen-
teacher and injuring oth- tary is in a mostly residential
ers, Gov. Greg Abbott neighborhood of modest
said, and the gunman was homes.
dead. A Border Patrol agent
It was the deadliest shoot- who was among the first
ing at a U.S. grade school law enforcement officers
since the shocking attack on scene was shot and
at Sandy Hook Elementary wounded by the gunman.
in Newtown, Connecticut, The agent is hospitalized in
almost a decade ago. good condition, according
The gunman entered Robb to a federal law enforce-
Elementary School in Uval- ment official who spoke
de with a handgun and to The Associated Press on
possibly a rifle, Abbott said. condition of anonymity
Officials have not revealed Law enforcement personnel walk outside Uvalde High School after shooting a was reported earlier because the investigation
a motive for the shooting, in the day at Robb Elementary School, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. was ongoing.
but said the shooter was a Associated Press The tragedy in Uvalde add-
resident of the community ed to a grim tally of mass
that's about 85 miles (135 School in the Houston area wounded, but Arredondo Tuesday afternoon, with of- shootings in Texas that have
kilometers) west of San An- and less than two weeks said there were "several ficers in heavy vests divert- been among the deadliest
tonio. after a gunman opened injuries." Earlier, Uvalde ing traffic and FBI agents in the U.S. over the past five
Abbott said the shooter fire at a supermarket in Buf- Memorial Hospital said 13 coming and going from the years. One year before the
was likely killed by respond- falo, New York, killing 10 children were taken there. building. Santa Fe school shooting in
ing officers but that the Black shoppers and work- Another hospital reported White House press secre- 2018, a gunman at Texas
events were still being in- ers in what officials have a 66-year-old woman was tary Karine Jean-Pierre said church killed more than
vestigated. Uvalde Consoli- described as a hate crime. in critical condition. President Joe Biden has two dozen people during a
dated Independent School "He shot and killed, horrifi- Robb Elementary School been briefed on the school Sunday service in the small
District Chief of Police Pete cally, incomprehensibly, 14 has an enrollment of just shooting on Air Force One town of Sutherland Springs.
Arredondo said at a news students and killed a teach- under 600 students, and Ar- as he returns from a five- In 2019, another gunman at
conference that the gun- er," said the governor, add- redondo said it serves stu- day trip to Asia and would a Walmart in El Paso killed
man acted alone. ing that two officers were dents in the second, third continue to receive up- 23 people in a racist attack.
It was the deadliest school shot and wounded but and fourth grade. He did dates. Jean-Pierre said The shooting came days
shooting in Texas history. It were expected to survive. not provide ages of the Biden will deliver remarks before the National Rifle
occurred four years after It was not immediately children who were shot. Tuesday evening at the Association annual con-
a gunman fatally shot 10 clear how many people, in A heavy police presence White House. vention was set to begin in
people at Santa Fe High addition to the dead, were surrounded the school Uvalde is home to about Houston. q

Pelosi pushes back on archbishop who denies her Communion

The California Democrat Senate. evil she is perpetrating, the
says she comes from a Pelosi said women and scandal she is causing, and
large family with many families need to know this the danger to her own soul
members who oppose is about more than abor- she is risking, I have deter-
abortion. "I respect peo- tion. "These same people mined that the point has
ple's views about that. But are against contraception, come in which I must make
I don't respect us foisting it family planning, in vitro fer- a public declaration that
onto others." Pelosi added, tilization. she is not to be admitted to
"Our archbishop has been It's a blanket thing and they Holy Communion," Cordil-
vehemently against LGBTQ use abortion as the front eone wrote.
rights. In fact he led the man for it." Over the past year, Cor-
way in an initiative on the Cordileone has said he dileone has been among
ballot in California." told Pelosi that she must ei- the most outspoken U.S.
Pelosi made her comments ther repudiate her support bishops advocating that
on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." of abortion rights or stop Communion be denied to
In a letter last week to Pe- speaking publicly about President Joe Biden and
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, of California, speaks during
a news conference on May 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washing- losi, Archbishop Salvatore her Catholic faith. In a sep- other politicians who sup-
ton. Cordileone said he would arate letter to church mem- port abortion rights.
Associated Press refuse her Communion af- bers, he said he had asked However, each bishop has
ter she vowed to codify into several times to meet with authority in his own diocese
WASHINGTON (AP) — deny her Communion over law the Supreme Court's Pelosi but that her office on this matter, and the
House Speaker Nancy Pe- her support of abortion Roe vs. Wade decision es- didn't respond or told him archbishop of Washington,
losi pushed back Tuesday rights, saying she respects tablishing a constitutional she was busy. Cardinal Wilton Gregory,
on the decision by San that people have opposing right to abortion. That leg- "After numerous attempts has affirmed that Biden is
Francisco's conservative views but not when they islation passed the House to speak with her to help welcome to receive the
Catholic archbishop to impose them on others. but died last week in the her understand the grave sacrament there.q