- At least 21 people were killed and several injured in a Tuesday mass
shooting at aTexas elementary school , The New York Times reported. - At least 19 children and two adults are dead.
At least 19 students and two adults are dead after a teenage shooter opened fire in an elementary school in south Texas on Tuesday, The New York Times reported.
Shortly after 12 p.m. local time, the shooter opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, about 84 miles outside of San Antonio, school officials said. Police said the suspected shooter was in custody at 1 p.m. local time but Texas Governor Greg Abbott later confirmed that the suspected gunman is dead.
In a press conference, Abbott named the suspected shooter as 18-year-old Salvador Romas, a US citizen and resident of Uvalde, Texas, and a student at Uvalde High School.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief of Police Pete Arredondo said upon initial investigation of the incident, the suspected shooter acted alone.
Abbott said the suspected gunman abandoned his vehicle and entered Robb Elementary with a handgun. The governor added that he may have also had a rifle, though that has not yet been publicly confirmed by authorities.
"He shot and killed — horrifically, incomprehensibly — 14 students and killed a teacher," Abbott said at a press conference earlier Tuesday. It is believed that responding officers shot and killed the suspected shooter, Abbott said.
"It is being reported that the subject shot his grandmother right before he went into the school," Abbott said.
Multiple news outlets later updated the death toll from the shooting to 19 children and two adults.
Officials at Uvalde Memorial Hospital said they received more than a dozen children for treatment following the incident. Two children were transferred to another hospital in San Antonio and another is pending transfer. A second hospital, University Health, said it received two patients — a 10-year-old girl and a 66-year-old woman, both in critical condition.
Hospital officials also said that two individuals arrived deceased. It was not immediately clear if the deceased were students or staff of the elementary school.
The incident occurred with two days left before the end of the school year, with the school's last day on Thursday, according to a district calendar. The shooting was the deadliest elementary school shooting since Sandy Hook.
A representative from the Uvalde Police Department told Insider that there is no public information at this time.