Small, close-knit Texas town reeling after 19 children, two adults killed in mass shooting

Record ID: 1674241

  • Title: Small, close-knit Texas town reeling after 19 children, two adults killed in mass shooting
  • Date: 25th May 2022
  • Summary: UVALDE, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (MAY 24, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE EMBRACING OUTSIDE CIVIC CENTER TWO WOMEN WEEPING AND HUGGING EACH OTHER AS THEY WALK AWAY FROM CIVIC CENTER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MAN HUGGING WOMAN WOMAN WITH HEAD IN HER HANDS PEOPLE WAITING OUTSIDE CIVIC CENTER PEOPLE WALKING PAST DOOR WITH A FAMILY SEATED INSIDE CIVIC CENTER PEOPLE DELIVERING PIZZAS TO CIVIC CENTER PEOPLE OUTSIDE CIVIC CENTER VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR UPDATES LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS VARIOUS OF FAMILY PRAYING WITH THEIR HEADS LOWERED PEOPLE STANDING (SOUNDBITE) (English) UVALDE RESIDENT ADELE MARTINEZ, SAYING: "It's really, it's really hard to see what happened today here as a grandma. Yeah, it is very hard. I can't imagine going through that with one of my grandkids. My heart is broken for the parents here in Uvalde. It's never thought something like this would happen in a small town and friendly as Uvalde. Well, we know each other, and it's been very bad and tragic here." PEOPLE WAITING FOR UPDATES (SOUNDBITE) (English) UVALDE RESIDENT PAUL MARTINEZ, SAYING: "Yes, I do (know families with children at the school) but the names have not been released, so I don't know which ones lost their children. And I know most of the folks here in Uvalde because I used to be a city councilman, former city councilman, so I know most of them and that they're good people, good folks. My heart goes out to them and condolences to them too. And very sad day for Uvalde, not only today, but the days to come." PEOPLE OUTSIDE CIVIC CENTER VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SPEAKING ON MOBILE PHONES PEOPLE WALKING INTO CIVIC CENTER
  • Embargoed: 8th June 2022 07:53
  • Keywords: Robb Elementary School Texas Uvalde school shooting
  • Location: UVALDE, TEXAS, UNITED STATES
  • City: UVALDE, TEXAS, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime,United States
  • Reuters ID: LVA001047625052022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Residents in Uvalde were left reeling in horror and grief after a teenage gunman murdered at least 19 children and two teachers in a Texas elementary school on Tuesday (May 24), the latest bout of gun-fuelled mass killing in the United States and the nation's worst school shooting in nearly a decade.
    Family members gathered at a civic center, with some crying and praying while waiting to hear further updates from the authorities.
    The carnage began with the 18-year-old suspect, identified as Salvador Ramos, shooting his own grandmother, who survived, authorities said. He fled that scene and crashed his car near the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a town about 80 miles (130 km) west of San Antonio. There he launched a bloody rampage that ended when he was killed, apparently shot by police.
    The motive was not immediately clear.
    Mass shootings in America have frequently led to public protests and calls for stricter background checks on gun sales and other firearm controls common in other countries, but such measures have repeatedly failed in the face of strong Republican-led opposition.
    (Production: Liliana Salgado, Christine Kiernana, Njuwa Maina, Deborah Gembara)
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