"At that point we had a tactical law enforcement arrive were able to make forcible entry into that classroom. Just began shooting anyone that was in his way," he said. "The shooter was able to make entry into a classroom, barricaded himself inside that classroom and again just began shooting numerous children and teachers that were in that classroom having no regard for human life. Olivarez said that when local and state officers responded they heard gunshots - and were shot at themselves. After fleeing that scene, he crashed his car at the school and made his way inside. The gunman had already shot his grandmother, according to Olivarez of the Department of Public Safety. The attack on the school began about 11:30 a.m. It was not immediately clear how many people in all were wounded, but the school district's police chief, Pete Arredondo, said there were "several injuries." "Why are we willing to live with this carnage?" "As a nation we have to ask, when in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God's name are we going to do what has to be done?" Biden asked. President Joe Biden appeared ready for a fight, calling for new gun restrictions in an address to the nation hours after the attack.
And the prospects for any reform of the nation's gun regulations seemed as dim, if not dimmer, than in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook deaths.īut U.S. The attack was the latest grim moment for a country scarred by a string of massacres, coming just 10 days after a deadly, racist rampage at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.
Waiting, he said, was the heaviest moment of his life. He said other relatives were at the hospital and the civic centre. He drove to the scene after receiving a terrifying call from his daughter shortly following the first reports of the shooting. Greg Abbott said one of the two adults killed was a teacher.Īdolfo Cruz, a 69-year-old air conditioning repairman, was still outside the school as the sun set, seeking word on his 10-year-old great-granddaughter, Eliajha Cruz Torres. "We're a small community, and we're going to need your prayers to get through this." "My heart is broken today," said Hal Harrell, the school district superintendent. "No! Please, no!" one man yelled as he embraced another man. At the town civic centre where some gathered, the silence was broken repeatedly by screams and wailing. school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.įamilies waited hours for word on their children. Tuesday's assault in the heavily Latino town of Uvalde was the deadliest shooting at a U.S.
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Police and others responding to Tuesday's attack broke windows at the school in an effort to allow students and teachers inside to escape, Lt.
#Texas lockdown series
An 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a classroom, "shooting anyone that was in his way," an official said Wednesday, describing the latest in a gruesome, yearslong series of mass killings at churches, schools and stores.
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