Fourteen students and a teacher are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, according to Gov. Greg Abbott reports CNN .
The 18-year-old suspect, a student at Uvalde High School, is also dead, he said.
Two are dead, over a dozen injured, after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas a spokesperson from Uvalde Memorial Hospital tells CNN. The hospital's received 13 children at their facility who were being treated for varying injuries. Suspect is in custody.
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“He shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensibly 14 students and killed a teacher,” Abbott said during an unrelated press briefing.
The suspect also allegedly shot his grandmother before entering the school and again opening fire, Abbott said. He did not say anything further about her condition.
Abbott said the shooter had a handgun and also possibly a rifle.
“When parents drop their kids off at school, they have every expectation to know that they’re going to be able to pick their child up when that school day ends. And there are families who are in mourning right now,” Abbott said. “The state of Texas is in mourning with them for the reality that these parents are not going to be able to pick up their children.”
Two responding police officers were among those injured, Abbott said. They are expected to survive, he said.
Uvalde Memorial Hospital had said 15 students were being treated in the hospital’s emergency department in the wake of the incident. Two patients were transferred to San Antonio for treatment, while a third was pending transfer, the hospital said. A 45-year-old was also hospitalized after getting grazed by a bullet, the hospital said.
“There is an active shooter at Robb Elementary,” the school district said on Twitter. “Law enforcement is on site. Your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus. As soon as more information is gathered it will be shared.”
A school official initially told ABC News that the shooting took place off campus, and that Robb Elementary School was under lockdown.
Uvalde is a good reminder that the US decided after Sandy Hook that children getting killed at school is part of living in American, and we're going to do absolutely nothing to stop it. https://t.co/xpHMmexRao
— Michael Savvy (@savvymike1) May 24, 2022
Texas Gov. Abbott says the Uvalde shooter "shot and killed — horrifically, incomprehensibly — 14 students and… a teacher."
It's NOT incomprehensible, though. 20 children and 6 adults were killed at Sandy Hook, nearly a decade ago. There have been 3,500+ mass shootings since. https://t.co/35QbcfmB61
— Amy B Wang (@amybwang) May 24, 2022
14 kids dead in Uvalde, Texas. 14.
Nothing changed after Sandy Hook and it’ll be the same this time.
This only happens in America. Nowhere else.
Fuck the NRA and every GOP shill who refuses to do a fucking thing to prevent this. Blood money.
Disgusted and sick. #Uvalde
— Ron Swanson’s Mustache (@swanny31176) May 24, 2022
