Texas primary school massacre shock – 19 children, two teachers killed by gunman

An inconceivable tragedy occurred in Texas, where An 18-year-old teenager opened fire yesterday inside an elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers. This is another tragedy that brings back to the fore the nightmare of gun attacks on schools in the country.

A Texas State Department spokesman told CNN that 19 students and two adults were killed in a school massacre in Uwalde, adding that the perpetrator was also killed in an exchange of fire with police.

The suspect in the massacre was named by the authorities as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. He killed children and teachers “in a barbaric and irrational way” inside the school, his Republican governor said earlier TexasGreg Abbott, during a press conference.

Salvador Ramos is also dead, according to authorities in the city, about 130 kilometers west of San Antonio.

He initially targeted his grandmotherwhose condition has not been clarified – according to CNN, she is also dead -, before going to school, “leave his car” and enter the building, according to the governor, armed “with a pistol” and possibly and “with a rifle”.

The motive of the perpetrator of the attack, one of the worst of its kind in the US for years, remains unknown at this stage.

Children 5 to 7 years old

The massacre took place at Rob Elementary School, attended by children aged 5 to 7 living in Uwalde. More than 500 children, almost 90% of Latin American descent, went there in the 2020-2021 school year, according to public data from the southern US state.

Videos uploaded to social networking sites show children rushing away from the building, in small groups, to the typical yellow school buses in front of the school.

THE President Biden “She is constantly being informed” of the events, said her spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre. He will address the deadly attack by addressing the American people at 20:15 (local time; 03:15 Greek time), after his return from Asia.

He ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-mast in the White House, in all public buildings and public places until Saturday, May 28, as a “sign of respect for the victims” of the attack, according to a press release issued by his services.

Ms Jean-Pierre added that Mr Biden was “praying for the families of the victims”.

The attack sinks them again USA in the torment of repeated attacks on schools in recent years, with shocking images of children being physically and mentally injured, often forced to lock themselves in classrooms before being driven away by law enforcement forces and insane parents desperately seeking to learn the fate of their shoots.

“When, in the name of God, will we stand tall in front of the arms lobby?”

Joe Biden broke out and called for action in the United States to counter the scourge of firearms attacks, despite the strong influence of the gun lobby in Congress.

“When in the name of God will we stand tall in front of the arms lobby?” the 78-year-old Democratic head of state wondered. “I’m heartbroken and tired,” he added.

He described as unthinkable the fact that commentators watch their friends die as if they were on a battlefield while in school.

While acknowledging that there is not much that the US authorities do not yet know about the Texas massacre, he stressed that he considers it wrong for any 18-year-old to be able to buy weapons such as assault rifles.

He said the Americans would not forget those who obstruct or delay the passage of gun ownership legislation based on common sense.

“It’s time to act,” Biden said. “We can do so much more.”