The attack in the predominantly Latino town of Uvalde was the deadliest school shooting in the U.S.

But in chilling posts on social media in the days and hours before the massacre, an account that appeared to belong to Ramos displayed photos of his guns and seemed to indicate something was going to happen. Investigators did not immediately disclose a motive. Police and others responding to the attack also broke windows at the school to enable students and teachers to escape. Law enforcement officers eventually broke into the classroom and killed the gunman. The gunman barricaded himself inside a classroom, 'shooting anyone that was in his way,' he said. Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN that all victims were in the same fourth-grade class at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The child victims of the shooting that claimed the lives of 21 people were all gathered in the same classroom, an official said earlier Wednesday. Greg Abbott for governor this year, interrupted Wednesday's news conference about the deadly elementary school shooting in the state, calling the Republican's response to the tragedy 'predictable.' O'Rourke was escorted out while members of the crowd yelled at him. Somebody needs to stand up for the children of this state or they will continue to be killed just like they were killed in Uvalde yesterday.'ĭuration 2:56 Democrat Beto O'Rourke, who is challenging Texas Gov. 'This is on you until you choose to do something different,' O'Rourke said. Some on the stage yelled back at O'Rourke, with Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, a Republican, calling him a 'sick son of a bitch.'Īs officers escorted O'Rourke out of the auditorium, some in the gathered crowd jeered him while one woman chanted, 'Let him speak.' Some people cried. You are offering us nothing,' O'Rourke told Abbott, as a police officer held out his arm, as if to stop the candidate from storming the stage. News conference interruptedĭemocrat Beto O'Rourke, who is running against Abbott for governor this year, interrupted the news conference, calling the Republican's response to the tragedy 'predictable.'Īs Abbott was finishing his remarks, O'Rourke approached the stage, pointed to the governor and said, 'This is on you.' Investigators have said the gunman in Tuesday's shooting had no known criminal or mental health history. Greg Abbott says the shooting at Robb Elementary was not about the fact that an 18-year-old can buy a long gun in the state, but rather about mental health issues. PHOTOS | Community mourns following deadly school shooting:ĭuration 1:17 Texas Gov. According to him, Ramos posted that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had shot the woman, and finally that he was going to shoot up an elementary school. 'What is he going to use it for but for that purpose?'Ībout 30 minutes before the bloodbath, Salvador Ramos made three social media posts, Abbot said. 'I just don't know how people can sell that type of a gun to a kid 18 years old,' Eliahna's aunt, Siria Arizmendi, said angrily through tears. The dead included an outgoing 10-year-old, Eliahna Garcia, who loved to sing, dance and play basketball a fellow fourth grader, Xavier Javier Lopez, who had been eagerly awaiting a summer of swimming and a teacher, Eva Mireles, with 17 years' experience whose husband is an officer with the school district's police department.

The gunman legally bought two AR-style rifles before the attack, soon after his 18th birthday, and warned on social media minutes before the attack that he had shot his grandmother and was going to shoot up a school, Gov. (Angela Piazza/USA Today Network/Reuters) Rose Conner, a substitute teacher in Uvalde, Texas, hugs a woman outside of Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Wednesday.

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