Fifteen people were killed, including 14 children and a teacher, in the shooting which mourned a school in Texas on Tuesday, May 24, announced the governor of the state. The shooter “killed, in an atrocious and senseless way, fourteen students and he killed a teacher”said Greg Abbott, adding that the 18-year-old suspect also died in this tragedy.
“The shooter is dead, and it appears that the officers involved killed him”, did he declare. The motives of this attack, one of the worst in a school for years, are for the moment unknown. Uvalde Police Chief Pete Arredondo said in a very short press conference that the killer acted alone. According to CNN television, the assailant drove to the school, where he entered with a rifle and a handgun.
Earlier, Uvalde Memorial Hospital had said on Facebook that they had taken care of “13 children” specifying that two people “were deceased” when they arrived, without specifying their age.
A 66-year-old woman is in a ” critical state ” announced another hospital, University Health, located in San Antonio, which says it has received “two patients”, an adult and a child.
Joe Biden will speak in the evening
The shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a town about 130 km west of San Antonio and halfway to the Mexican border.
Ted Cruz, Republican senator from Texas, thanked the “heroic law enforcement” and emergency services for their intervention during this “awful shooting”.
US President Joe Biden will speak in the evening on this shooting, announced the White House. “President Biden is kept informed” of the killing, said the spokeswoman for the presidency, Karine Jean-Pierre. “His prayers go out to the families stricken by this appalling event and he will speak tonight upon his return to the White House” after her trip to Asia, she added.
Shootings in public places are almost daily in the United States and gun crime is on the rise in major cities such as New York, Chicago, Miami or San Francisco, especially since the 2020 pandemic. America has been mourned by a racist shooting that killed ten African Americans in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
Fifteen people were killed, including 14 children and a teacher, in the shooting which mourned a school in Texas on Tuesday, May 24, announced the governor of the state. The shooter “killed, in an atrocious and senseless way, fourteen students and he killed a teacher”said Greg Abbott, adding that the 18-year-old suspect also died in this tragedy.
“The shooter is dead, and it appears that the officers involved killed him”, did he declare. The motives of this attack, one of the worst in a school for years, are for the moment unknown. Uvalde Police Chief Pete Arredondo said in a very short press conference that the killer acted alone. According to CNN television, the assailant drove to the school, where he entered with a rifle and a handgun.
Earlier, Uvalde Memorial Hospital had said on Facebook that they had taken care of “13 children” specifying that two people “were deceased” when they arrived, without specifying their age.
A 66-year-old woman is in a ” critical state ” announced another hospital, University Health, located in San Antonio, which says it has received “two patients”, an adult and a child.
Joe Biden will speak in the evening
The shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a town about 130 km west of San Antonio and halfway to the Mexican border.
Ted Cruz, Republican senator from Texas, thanked the “heroic law enforcement” and emergency services for their intervention during this “awful shooting”.
US President Joe Biden will speak in the evening on this shooting, announced the White House. “President Biden is kept informed” of the killing, said the spokeswoman for the presidency, Karine Jean-Pierre. “His prayers go out to the families stricken by this appalling event and he will speak tonight upon his return to the White House” after her trip to Asia, she added.
Shootings in public places are almost daily in the United States and gun crime is on the rise in major cities such as New York, Chicago, Miami or San Francisco, especially since the 2020 pandemic. America has been mourned by a racist shooting that killed ten African Americans in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.