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25th May 2022
06:44am BST

After crashing a pickup truck outside Robb Elementary School, Ramos entered the school and started shooting.
After having killed 19 children and two teacher, plus injured several others, a heroic US border patrol agent was able to make his way into the school where Ramos has barricaded himself, and eventually fired shots that killed the gunman.
The Texas school shooting is now the deadliest such incident since 14 high school students and three adult staff were killed in Parkland, Florida in 2018 - and the worst at an elementary school since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut, in which 20 children and six staff were killed. Yesterday, before the shooting began, Robb Elementary School students were holding a day of celebrations, receiving certificates for the end of the school year.However, mere moments later, videos taken in the immediate aftermath of the shooting show parents frantically running towards the campus to collect their kids.
According to US media, the school warned parents to stay away and instead collect their children from a rendezvous point after they had been 'accounted for'.
Fourth-grade student Xavier Lopez, 10, was also killed. His mother had attended his awards ceremony just hours before the shooting, unaware that would be the last time she saw him.
10-year-old Makenna Elrod, 10, was also confirmed dead by loved ones on Facebook last night local time.
'The idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong.'
'As a nation, we have to ask: When in God's name will we stand up to the gun lobby? Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep on letting this happen? Where in God's name is our backbone?'
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