#Texas recent shooting update
#Texas recent shooting series

#Texas recent shooting series

The rampage was the latest in a series of mass school shootings that have periodically reignited a fierce debate between advocates of tighter gun controls and those who oppose any legislation that could compromise the US Constitutional right of Americans to bear arms. Emergency blood donation appointments are being held on Wednesday. There is currently a blood shortage at the local hospitals where the wounded are being treated, reported PTI. They have already sent over 15 units of blood and are running out. The South Texas Blood and Tissue Center issued a public appeal for blood donations. (Reuters)Ī 45-year-old victim grazed by a bullet was also hospitalised at Uvalde Memorial, the hospital said. A priest comforts people as they react outside the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting, in Uvalde. It was not immediately clear whether all of those students survived. Uvalde Memorial Hospital said 15 students from Robb Elementary were treated in its emergency room, with two transferred to San Antonio for further care, while a third patient transfer was pending.

#Texas recent shooting update

Update on the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde: at University Hospital we have received four patients: University Hospital in San Antonio said on Twitter that it had received four patients from the shooting in Uvalde, of which a 66-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl are listed in critical condition. ( Read an account of how the attack unfolded.) The 18-year-old also had shot his own grandmother before fleeing from the scene, then crashing his getaway car and launching a bloody rampage at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, about 130 km west of San Antonio. Governor Greg Abbott said that the suspect, identified as Salvador Ramos, was apparently killed by police officers, and that two officers were struck by gunfire, though the governor said their injuries were not serious.įOX 11 has obtained the photo of the suspected Texas school shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. I do not have the exact number at this time,” Lieutenant Chris Olivarez, in an interview with Fox News, said of Tuesday’s shooting at a South Texas elementary school. “We do know that there were multiple children that did survive, that were injured. Multiple children survived with injuries after a gunman barricaded himself in a fourth grade classroom where he killed 19 children and two adults, a Texas public safety official said on Wednesday. The attack, which came 10 days after an avowed white supremacist shot 13 people at a supermarket in a mostly Black neighbourhood of Buffalo.

When the law expired - mass shootings tripled. When we passed the assault weapons ban - mass shootings went down. But we know they work and have a positive impact. We know common sense gun laws can’t and won’t prevent every tragedy. Why do many in the US resist stricter gun laws? Read our explainer here Several people, including children, were injured. The incident is the latest bout of gun-fueled mass murder in the United States and the nation’s worst school shooting in nearly a decade. When the law expired - mass shootings tripled, he further highlighted. “We know common sense gun laws can’t and won’t prevent every tragedy. More from Uvalde | Minutes before school attack, Texas gunman sent online warning.