19 students and 1 teacher killed in Texas elementary school shooting
At least 19 students and a teacher died after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire on Tuesday in an elementary school in Texas.
The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 135 kilometres west of San Antonio, was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since December 2012, when a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
Uvalde Police Chief Pete Arredondo said there were "several injuries," although it was not immediately clear how many people were wounded.
Family members gathered outside the school and the town's civic centre for word on the school's 600 students.
Adolfo Cruz, a 69-year-old air conditioning repairman, said that waiting on news about his 10-year-old great-granddaughter, Eliajha Cruz Torres, was the heaviest moment of his life.
"I hope she is alive," Cruz said. "They are waiting for an update."
A U.S. Border Patrol agent who had rushed to the scene killed the attacker, a law enforcement official said.
Tuesday's attack came 10 days after a racially-motivated shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., left 10 people dead.
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"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. "Why are we willing to live with this carnage?"
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