UPDATE: Texas elementary school shooting death toll is now at 19 children and two teachers.
He killed his grandmother before heading to the school with two military-style rifles he had purchased on his birthday, Gutierrez said.
To assist the town, Nelson Wolff, a judge in Bexar County, said first responders and emergency personnel were deployed to neighboring Uvalde County,"It is with profound grief and broken hearts that we learn about the news coming our way this afternoon. We stand united with the community in Uvalde and offer our assistance. We also mourn with them over the lives of those children and adults lost to violence," Wolff said in a statement.
Ryan Ramirez waited outside the renunciation center for hours looking for his daughter, Alithia, a fourth-grader at Robb Elementary.
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