18-year-old gunman kills 19 children, 2 teachers at Texas elementary school

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A teenage gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday (May 24), the latest bout of gun-fuelled mass murder in the US and the nation's worst school shooting in nearly a decade.

UVALDE — A teenage gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday , the latest bout of gun-fuelled mass murder in the United States and the nation's worst school shooting in nearly a decade.

Mr Biden ordered flags flown at half-staff daily until sunset on Saturday in observance of the tragedy. After conflicting early accounts of the death toll, Texas public safety officials said on Tuesday night that 19 school children and two teachers had died. Mr P.J. Talavera, who runs a martial arts school in town, was outside the civic center and said his wife's niece was among the children killed.

 

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