Robb Elementary School is reporting an active shooter. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District is on lockdown.
UPDATE: 05/24/2022 09:45 PM
A mobile morgue unit was seen on the scene at Robb Elementary School. Police in Uvalde have reported at least 18 children and three adults deceased.
UPDATE: 05/24/2022 06:59 PM
The Robb Elementary School shooter has been identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.
Ramos’s social media was full of photos of guns. He messaged a stranger on Instagram, tagging her in a photo of the guns.
‘I got lil secret. I wanna tell you,’ one message said.
‘Be grateful I tagged you,’ he wrote.
She replied: ‘No it’s just scary…’
Ramos acted alone, said Pete Arredondo, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District chief of police, and it is confirmed he is deceased.
UPDATE: 05/24/2022 05:04 PM
The 18-year-old suspect in the Robb Elementary School is dead. He was a Uvalde High School Student. Before he was apprehended the suspect shot his grandmother before entering the school and opening fire.
14 students and a teacher are reportedly dead after the horrific incident according to Governor Greg Abbott.
“He shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensibly 14 students and killed a teacher,” Abbott said during an unrelated press briefing. “When parents drop their kids off at school, they have every expectation to know that they’re going to be able to pick their child up when that school day ends. And there are families who are in mourning right now,” Abbott said. “The state of Texas is in mourning with them for the reality that these parents are not going to be able to pick up their children.”
Two responding police officers were among those injured, Abbott said. They are expected to survive, he said.
UPDATE: 05/24/2022 04:16 PM
Uvalde Memorial Hospital has reportedly received 13 children at their facility. Two children were transported to San Antonio and another is pending transfer, Tom Nordwick said.
Additionally, two patients were dead on arrival, he said. Nordwick was not sure of the ages of the two deceased. A man in his 40s was also being treated there, he said.
UPDATE: 05/24/2022 03:39 PM
Uvalde Memorial Hospital posted on their Facebook page that they are currently caring for multiple children from Robb Elementary School.
Uvalde Police reported that they took a suspect into custody.
Prior to the gunman’s arrest, he reportedly exchanged gunfire with border patrol agents before barricading himself in the school.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told Fox News that shots were fired offsite and that after shooting one person the gunman ran to the school where he remained barricaded.
The district said that the city’s civic center will be used as a reunification center and that parents will be able to pick up their children there once everyone is accounted for.
UPDATE: 05/24/2022 02:27 PM
Uvalde Police Department said that the alleged gunman who prompted the lockdown is in custody.
Originally posted: 05/24/2022 02:04 PM
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District said that all schools are on lockdown due to gunshots and to avoid the area.
A Uvalde Police Department dispatcher said the scene was still active and that no other information was immediately available.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The district said that the city’s civic center will be used as a reunification center and that parents will be able to pick up their children there.
Robb Elementary School has an enrollment of just under 600 students is 90 miles west of San Antonio.
We will update as we receive more information.
