19 students, 2 teachers killed in shooting attack at Texas elementary school

May 25, 2022

All 21 of those shot to death were in the same 4th-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas; the alleged shooter was killed by police.

Nineteen elementary-age students and two teachers have been shot to death in an attack at a Texas elementary school.

The Associated Press reports that the shooting occurred Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Uvalde is about 85 miles west of San Antonio.

Authorities say all 21 of those shot to death were in the same fourth-grade classroom. Another 17 people were injured in the attack, police said.

Gov. Greg Abbott identified the shooter as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School. Ramos was fatally shot by law enforcement at the school as he exchanged gunfire with authorities. Police say Ramos acted alone.

The two adults killed in the classroom were teachers. The school is home to about 600 students in grades two through four.

Ramos was wearing body armor and had hinted on social media of an upcoming attack. Authorities say he shot and wounded his grandmother before heading to the school with two military-style rifles he had bought on his birthday.

He crashed his car outside the school and went inside armed, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. He exchanged gunfire with a school district police officer outside the school, then entered the school building and barricaded himself inside a fourth-grade classroom.

Ramos exchanged gunfire with officers, and at least two were wounded before Ramos was fatally shot, police said.