At least 18 children and three adults were killed by a teenager on Tuesday. At an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, an incident that has once again plunged the United States into a nightmare of repeated school shootings.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott said at a news conference that 18-year-old suspect Salvador Romas killed several children and a teacher in a “gruesome and senseless way”.
He added that Romas was also killed, adding that “the officers who responded are believed to have killed him.” The White House said President Joe Biden was briefed on the matter. “His prayers will speak with the families affected by this horrific event and when he returns tonight,” the spokesperson said of the trip to Asia.
The reasons for the attack are currently unknown. Uvalde Memorial Hospital had previously added on Facebook that it had treated “13 children” and that two had “died” when they arrived, without specifying their ages.
A 66-year-old woman is also in “critical condition”, she said, adding that another hospital, University Health, in the nearby city of San Antonio, is receiving “two patients”, one adult and one child.
The attack occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a town between San Antonio and the Mexican border. More than 500 children enrolled in this education center in the 2020-2021 academic year.according to state data.
Local police had previously announced that a suspect had been taken into custody following the shooting that started at noon. In the school where students from the second grade to the fourth grade attend, parents were asked not to pick up their children from school until they were counted.
“Please do not take students at this hour. Students must be held to account before they are released into your responsibility. After all the accounts are made, they will be informed to take the students,” he said.
US Senator Ted Cruz from Texas tweeted that he and his wife were praying for children and families in the “terrible Uvalde attack”. “Thank you heroic law enforcement and first responders for acting so quickly,” the Republican lawmaker added.
US Vice President Kamala Harris said in the wake of the shooting at the school in Texas, the country’s leaders must have the courage to take action to end the shootings.
Speaking at the annual premiere of the Asia Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, Harris said, “Enough is enough, we have the courage to act as a nation and understand the relevance of what constitutes reasonable and sensible public policy.” Said.
Visibly impressed, Harris stressed that whenever such a tragedy happens it is discouraging, but that it cannot be compared to the trance experienced by the victims’ families. “And yet, it continues to happen,” the vice president complained.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, for his part, ordered the national flags to be lowered at half-mast for the shooting.
Returning home from his Asian trip, Biden ordered the US flag to be lowered at half-mast on Thursday, May 28, on all official buildings, military installations and warships, as well as the White House.
The statement announced that it took this decision “as a tribute to the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated by a hitman on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.”
Upon arrival at the White House, the President is expected to address the nation at around 20:15 local time on Tuesday (Wednesday 0015 GMT).
Deadly violence at this Texas school follows other mass shootings across the United States this month.
on 14 May, An 18-year-old man walked into a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and shot and killed 10 people.. The self-proclaimed white supremacist, wearing a heavy bulletproof vest and carrying an AR-15 rifle, reportedly broadcast the attack live.
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It has been reported that he has been planning for months by targeting the store due to the large African-American population surrounding it. The next day, a man blocked the door of a church in Laguna Woods, California, and He opened fire on the Taiwanese-American congregation, killing one person and wounding five..
According to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, the attacker, who was working as a security guard in Las Vegas, targeted people with “politically motivated hatred…(and) upset over political tensions between China and Taiwan.”
Despite repeated mass shootings and a national wave of gun violence, multiple attempts in the US Congress to reform gun regulations have failed, leaving states and local councils to enact their own restrictions.
The United States recorded 19,350 firearm homicides in 2020, nearly 35 percent more than in 2019According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the main US public health agency.
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*With information from Efe and AFP
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