A mass shooting at a Texas elementary school left 19 children and two adults dead, adding to a gruesome series of mass killings in America.
Highlights
- Gunman killed at least 19 fourth-graders and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.
- Salvador Ramos, 18, crashed his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and shot at two people outside a nearby funeral home who ran away uninjured.
- Ramos then fired on two arriving police officers who were outside the building, a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson said.
- Ramos killed by a Border Patrol tactical team after 40 minutes to an hour of shooting.
- Ramos has known the family for decades, authorities said he was puttering in his yard and getting out of his truck in his front yard.