Eighteen children and a teacher were fatally shot by an 18-year-old male at an elementary school in Texas on May 24.
The male, who was identified as Salvador Ramos, drove to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and opened fire, the governor said at a press conference in Abilene. Uvalde is about 80 miles west of San Antonio.
Students who currently attend that school are second, third, and fourth graders.
“He shot and killed—horrifically, incomprehensibly—14 students, and killed a teacher,” Abbott said. The number of deaths have since been updated to 18 students and a teacher.
Ramos is believed to have been a student or a former student at Uvalde High School and is an American citizen, Abbott said. Ramos entered the school with a handgun and may also have had a rifle, according to the governor….