Fourteen students and one teacher were killed Tuesday during a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Governor Greg Abbott said.
Abbott said the suspected shooter, an 18-year-old, believed to be from Uvalde also died. “He shot and killed horrifically, incomprehensibly, 14 students and killed a teacher.
The shooter, he himself is deceased and its believed that responding officers killed him,” Abbott told a news briefing. Uvalde’s district chief of police Pedro “Pete” Arredondo confirmed during a press conference Tuesday that the suspect is dead, noting they are believed to have acted alone during the “heinous” crime.
Arredondo called the shooting a mass casualty incident and said families are being notified. According to the Uvalde Memorial Hospital (UMH), 13 children were transferred to the facility for treatment after an active shooter was reported at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
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