Yet another mass shooting has killed more than a dozen people in the U.S.
This most recent shooting occurred Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, with the shooter having killed 19 children and two teachers – the deadliest school shooting in almost a decade.
The victims who were killed in Tuesday's attack include multiple 10-year-olds and a fourth-grade teacher. Another 17 people were injured.
The alleged shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, is dead. He is believed to have acted alone and is believed to have shot his grandmother before going to the school. On Wednesday, the 66-year-old grandmother was hospitalized in critical condition,
According to police, Ramos crashed his vehicle in a ditch near the school before attempting to enter the school. Despite engagement with law enforcement, Ramos was able to get inside the school and barricade himself inside a classroom.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Ramos had no known criminal or mental health history and had used an AR-15 in the attack, the Associated Press reported. An AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle. State Senator Ronald Gutierrez said the guns used in the school shooting were bought legally from a federally authorized dealer in the Uvalde area.
This attack comes less than two weeks after a white supremacist gunman stormed a Buffalo supermarket on May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, NY killed 10 Black people.
