At Least 14 Children, 1 Teacher Killed by Gunman at Texas Elementary School

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The massacre took place Tuesday morning at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, 85 miles west of San Antonio.

"They fucking failed our kids again," the father of a Parkland massacre victim fumed."How many more times are we gonna sit back?... How many more times?"A South Texas town is reeling Tuesday after at least 15 people—including 14 students and a teacher—were killed and an unknown number of others wounded by a gunman during a mass shooting at a local elementary school.

The shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, 85 miles west of San Antonio. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbottin a statement that the shooter—who early reports indicate might have had a rifle and a handgun—was fatally shot by law enforcement responding to the scene. The governor also said that two police officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries during an exchange of gunfire with the shooter.

Pete Arredondo, police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, said during an afternoon press conference that several adults and students had been injured in the attack.

 

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