19 children, 2 adults killed in mass shooting at Texas elementary school
HOUSTON — A gunman walked into a Texas school Tuesday and killed at least 21 people, including 19 children, in another mass shooting in an America that daily buries victims of gun violence amid divisive political debates over Second Amendment rights and the gaze of disbelief from the outside world.
The killings in the predominately Latino city of Uvalde were — as happens so often — the work of a lone man who took unsuspecting lives in a barrage of gunfire.
Officials say Salvador Ramos, 18, carrying a handgun and possibly a rifle, entered Robb Elementary School in the working-class city of about 16,000 people approximately 80 miles west of San Antonio.
“He shot and killed — horrifically, incomprehensibly,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said.
