Texas elementary school shooting: Live from Uvalde, Texas
Onlookers have said they urged police to move into the primary school as officers stood by while a gunman was carrying out his rampage, which killed 19 students and two teachers.
The father of 10-year-old victim Jacklyn Cazares said he even suggested to go in himself with other bystanders as he was frustrated police were not doing it themselves.
Details are starting to emerge of the attack and the 18-year-old shooter behind it.
The teenage gunman, identified as Salvador Ramos, barricaded himself inside a classroom before killing the fourth-grade students at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday.
The suspect, with no known criminal history or history of mental illness, was shot dead by an officer on the scene after around 60 minutes.
Facebook has confirmed that he sent a direct message online around 10 minutes before the attack warning that he was going to shoot up an elementary school.
ICYMI: Gunman ‘wasn’t violent person’, mother says
The shooter’s gunman has broken her silence following the school attack that killed 19 students and two teachers and says that her son “wasn’t a violent person”, Graeme Massie reports.
Zoe Tidman26 May 2022 08:58
Tributes paid to victims
Tributes and memorials are being paid to the 21 victims of the shooting. See here:
Flowers are placed on a makeshift memorial in front of Robb Elementary School
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A woman holds a photo of Nevaeh Bravo, who was killed in the mass shooting, during a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde
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Zoe Tidman26 May 2022 08:36
Who are the victims?
Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the school shooting on Tuesday.
Zoe Tidman26 May 2022 08:18
ICYMI: Texas teen arrested with pistol at school day after mass shooting
Texas police arrested a boy in posession of an AK-47-style pistol and a toy AR-15-style rifle at school on Wednesday, the day after a mass shooting in the state left 21 dead at an elementary school in the small town of Uvalde, Josh Marcus reports.
Police were called on Wednesday morning in the town of Richardson, a Dallas suburb, on reports that a male was seen walking towards Berkner High School holding what looked like a rifle.
Zoe Tidman26 May 2022 08:03
‘Second amendment not absolute’
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that “the Second Amendment is not absolute” as he called for new gun control measures in the wake of this week’s massacre at a Texas elementary school.
When the amendment was approved, “you…
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