The gunman who killed at least 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday has been named as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.
Governor Greg Abbott said Ramos, who was eventually shot dead by law enforcement officers, was “the sheer face of evil”.
Ramos was a student at Uvalde High School and lived in the small city 80 miles west of San Antonio.
The teen had hinted on social media that an attack could be coming, state senator Roland Gutierrez told reporters. “He suggested the kids should watch out”, the lawmaker said.
Ramos also wrote, “I’m going to shoot an elementary school”, on Facebook, according to Mr Abbott, though Facebook disputes that account, saying the messages were “private one-to-one text messages that were discovered after the terrible tragedy occurred”....
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