An 18-year-old shooter killed at least 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday local time - but the US has been here before.
An 18-year-old shooter killed at least 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday local time, marking the deadliest school shooting in the United States in a decade.
Salvador Ramos, a local teenager, had already shot his grandmother, although she survived the attack. He too was killed in a shoot-out with local police after a 40-minute rampage through the school. But the US has been here before – after shootings in Tucson, Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, Roseburg, San Bernardino, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, El Paso, Boulder, and 10 days earlier at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
There have been 14 shootings that have claimed four or more victims’ lives at US schools and colleges since 1999, when two students killed 12 of their peers and a teacher at Colorado’s Columbine High School in 1999. That’s according to a database compiled by
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