Police outside the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where the shooting took placeWASHINGTON, May 25. 18 children and 3 adults were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in the US state of Texas, CNN reports, citing a local senator. Earlier, Governor Greg Abbott said that 14 schoolchildren and their teacher were killed in a shooting in the city of Uvalde. The killer was identified as 18-year-old local resident Salvador Romas. The attacker was eliminated by the police. The senator referred to information from the Texas Rangers. According to media reports, before the attack on the school, Romas killed his grandmother. US President Joe Biden, in connection with the incident, called for a challenge to the arms lobby. «When I became president, I hoped that I would not have to do this. But again, another massacre is now in Yuvalda … And as a people, we must ask when, in the name of God, we will challenge the gun lobby. Time to act.» , the head of state said. more than 15 thousand people. This is the second mass murder in the United States in ten days. On Saturday, May 14, an 18-year-old youth killed ten people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. The police believe that the perpetrator, who surrendered to the authorities, was guided by the motives of racial hatred.
Shooting is not uncommon in American schools. However, the tragedy in Yuvalda has become the bloodiest in the last 10 years — since December 14, 2012. Then 20 students and six adult employees of a school in the village of Sandy Hook, Connecticut, were killed. years