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National Crime
School Shooter Shot His Grandmother Before Driving To Elementary School
Texas officials are clarify- ing the events leading up to Tuesday's tragic mass shoot- ing at a school in Uvalde, Texas, which claimed the lives of at least 19 students, a teacher and one other adult.
On Tuesday, Sgt. Erick Estrada, Texas Dept. of Public Safety, said there were two separate shootings that took place.
Texas Gov. Greg Ab- bott previously announced the shooter — identified as Uvalde resident Salvador Ramos — is dead.
"The first incident was in- volving the suspect at their grandmother's residence, where he shot the grand- mother, and then the grand- mother was airlifted," Estrada said.
The second incident, which Estrada said was ini- tially called in as a crash "and a man with a firearm outside [Robb Elementary] school premises," resulted in the shooting deaths of at least 21 people.
"The suspect did crash near a ditch here nearby the school. That's where he ex- ited his vehicle with [what] I
mately were able to bring him down."
The shooter opened fire at Robb Elementary School at about 11:30 a.m. after abandoning his vehicle, and it is believed police killed him.
Police said at a Tuesday press conference they believe the shooter, who according to Abbott had a handgun and possibly a rifle, acted alone. The children killed were in the second, third and fourth grades, police said.
Uvalde is a small city of about 16,000 residents, ap- proximately 85 miles west of San Antonio.
University Health San Antonio tweeted there are two patients — a 66-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl — who are in critical con- dition.
Abbott said two re- sponding officers were in- jured and expected to survive, according to ABC News.
President Joe Biden
spoke out following the shooting.
"I had hoped when I be- came president I would not have to do this again, an- other massacre in Uvalde, Texas. An elementary school. Beautiful, innocent second, third, and fourth graders. How many scores of little children who witnessed what happened, see their friends die, as if they're in a battle-
field for God's sake," he said, in part, in his nearly eight- minute address.
"I am sick and tired of it.
We have to act. And don't tell me we can't have an impact on this carnage. I spent my career as a senator and vice
president working to pass common sense gun laws," he added.
Vice President Ka- mala Harris also issued a statement hours after the shooting while speaking at a pre-planned event Tuesday, saying in part, "While we don't know all the details yet, we do know there are par- ents who lost children."
"Every time a tragedy like this happens our hearts break. And our broken hearts are nothing compared to the broken hearts of those families, and yet it keeps happening," she continued, later adding, "Enough is enough."
SALVADOR RAMOS
Family Members dis- traught over school shoot-
Rifles used in shooting. ing.
believe was Estrada said.
as rifle,"
"What got reported was that a man with a gun had crashed nearby the Robb El- ementary School," he later added. "He was observed ex- iting the vehicle with his own rifle and a backpack. He also had body armor with him."
Estrada also confirmed that he was wearing the body armor.
"There were several law enforcement that engaged the suspect, but he was able to make entry into the school where he did go into several classrooms, and unfortu- nately he did fire his firearm inside the school premises," the sergeant said.
"Then he was met with another tactical law enforce- ment agency, which ulti-
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