The assault was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in December 2012.
22 people killed, including teen gunman, in midday elementary school attack in southern TexasPeople embrace Wednesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the latest mass shooting in the U.S. A gunman killed 21 people, including 19 students, before being shot to death, officials have said.
"I just don't know how people can sell that type of a gun to a kid 18 years old," Eliahna's aunt, Siria Arizmendi, said angrily through tears. "What is he going to use it for but for that purpose?" As officers escorted O'Rourke out of the auditorium, some in the gathered crowd jeered him while one woman chanted, "Let him speak." Some people cried.
Investigators did not immediately disclose a motive. But in chilling posts on social media in the days and hours before the massacre, an account that appeared to belong to Ramos displayed photos of his guns and seemed to indicate something was going to happen.
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