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Tuesday shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, dead 18 children — between the ages of 5 and 11 — and a 44-year-old teacher who taught fourth grade, reports CNN International, and caused more injuries, including students. The 18-year-old suspect in the attack lived in the area where the shooting took place and was killed by authorities in the exchange of fire.

“The suspect acted alone in this heinous crime,” one of the policemen told reporters at the scene, adding that “all measures were being taken” so that the remaining children were “safely delivered to their parents.” .

The Uvalde Memorial hospital confirms that there are still 13 children in the emergency room receiving hospital care and a 45-year-old man, slightly injured. In addition to these, there is another child whose conditions are not disclosed and a 66-year-old woman in “critical condition”.

Greg Abbott identified the gunman as Salvador Ramos, 18, suspected of shooting his grandmother before the elementary school attack. However, no further details are known about the woman’s health status.

Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School in Texas

Ramos was a student at the local high school and would have been armed, according to Abbott, with a revolver and probably also a shotgun.

“It is believed that the shooter abandoned his vehicle and entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde with a revolver and may also have had a shotgun, but this is not yet confirmed based on my latest report,” the governor added.

In the local press there are those who assure that the shooter was fleeing from the police when he entered the elementary school armed and shot at the children, reporting that he was still wearing a bulletproof vest. The suspect’s motive for both shootings is unknown at this time.

BREAKING: There are multiple deaths as a result of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX, a law enforcement source tells me.
More details to come as we learn them and can confirm more information. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/yADSNh1Coc

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) May 24, 2022

In addition to the children, during the exchange of fire, two policemen were injured -not seriously-.

“There is a shooting at Robb Elementary School. The security forces are on the scene”, the police authorities of Texas, USA, initially wrote on Twitter asking everyone for “cooperation”. On social networks, the authorities asked the parents hours later to pick up the children at the Social Center near the installations, where the students had been taken at the start of the shooting.

According to the official school website, there are 475 students at Robb Elementary School. The school term ended in two days, on May 26, but the local authorities determined the early closure of the school year as well as the cancellation of the usual celebrations.

The teacher who ended up dying on the spot was named Eva Mireles and was a fourth grade teacher. She was married to a policeman and had a son.

REST IN PEACE: Fourth grade teacher Eva Mireles was killed along with at least 14 students in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. ???????????? This is what we know about the victims: https://t.co/lgbe4mvp8D pic.twitter.com/HG9eJZ6Imq

— ABC7 eyewitness news (@ABC7) May 25, 2022

“He comes.” Kamala Harris urges governments to act after tragedy

The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, lamented, this Tuesday, the shooting that occurred in the city of Uvalde. “There are parents who have lost children, families who have lost loved ones. Their hearts are broken, our hearts are broken. But nothing compares to the broken hearts of families.”

Speaking out against US gun policy, Kamala Harris said “enough is enough”. “He is coming. As a nation, we must have the courage to act and understand the nexus between policymakers and public policy to ensure it never happens again.” The US vice president also urged “the courage to act.” by American leaders.

US President Joe Biden ordered the country’s flags to fly at half-staff due to the massacre, a “show of respect for the victims of senseless acts of violence perpetrated on May 24, 2022 by a gunman at Robb Elementary School. in Uvalde, Texas.

This is the fifth shooting this month in the United States.

• On May 13, 16 people were injured in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Five men were arrested after the shooting;
• On May 14, 10 people were killed and three injured in Buffalo, New York, in a racially motivated attack;
• The next day, one person was killed and four were injured in another shooting in California;
• On May 15, two men were killed and three wounded in a shooting at a market in Houston, also in Texas.