Fourteen students and one teacher were killed by the gunman, who was believed to have been killed by responding police officers.
| President Joe Biden delivered an angry and emotional appeal for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman opened fire at a Texas school on Tuesday , killing 19 children in the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.
The 18-year-old gunman opened fire at the Texas elementary school, shooting children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the latest gruesome moment for a country scarred by a string of massacres. The attacker was killed by law enforcement. The attack also came just 10 days after a deadly, racist rampage at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket that added to a years-long series of mass killings at churches, schools and stores. And the prospects for any reform of the nation’s gun regulations seemed as dim as in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook deaths.President Biden, however, appeared ready for a fight, calling for new gun restrictions in an address to the nation hours after the attack.
He killed his grandmother before heading to the school with two military-style rifles he had bought on his birthday, Senator Gutierrez said.Officials did not immediately reveal a motive, but the governor identified the assailant as Salvador Ramos. Ramos had hinted on social media that an attack could be coming, Senator Gutierrez said, noting that “he suggested the kids should watch out”.
The tragedy in Uvalde was the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, and it added to a grim tally in the state, which has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the US over the past five years.In 2018, a gunman fatally shot 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area. A year before that, a gunman killed more than two dozen people during a Sunday church service in the small town of Sutherland Springs.
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