Texas School Shooting: Death Toll Has Risen to 21, Including 18 Children

Somehow, .... somehow we need to not allow our hearts to harden. Somehow, again and again, we need to do the hard work of keeping our hearts open. To me, this is the only way. The only way to not be pulled into the darkness and absorb the hatred and rage and extreme pain that horrifies us and that is embodied in the profoundly lost souls who commit such catastrophic acts of violence. Somehow we cannot lose sight of the vital need for a fierce kind of compassion and love and resilience and commitment to the ongoing work of our individual and collective human healing and evolution. Somehow we cannot shed the love that is our deepest nature... Somehow... Bless us all... 🙏 Molly

 

Texas school shooting: key facts

It is a horrific day for gun violence once again in the US, after an 18-year-old man in Texas opened fire in an elementary school, killing 18 students and three teachers. Here’s what we know.

• The shooting occurred in Uvalde, Texas, a town of about 15,000 people about 85 miles west of San Antonio in south-west Texas

• The shooter opened fire at at Robb Elementary school. Its school district, Uvalde school district, has an enrollment of just under 600 students.

• Texas governor Greg Abbott said on Tuesday that the suspected gunman was an 18-year-old man named Salvador Romas. Abbott said that shooter is “deceased and it is believed responding officers killed him”.

• The man had a handgun and “may have also had a rifle”, the governor said.

Texas state Senator Roland Gutierrez says death toll is now 21 in mass shooting

The death toll in a mass shooting targeting an elementary school on Tuesday has now risen to 21, according to Texas state senator Roland Gutierrez, including 18 children and three adults.

“Schools scared to death,” the poem reads. “The truth is, one education under desks, Stooped low from bullets; That plunge when we ask Where our children Shall live & how & if.” 

 

Schools scared to death.
The truth is, one education under desks,
Stooped low from bullets;
That plunge when we ask
Where our children
Shall live
& how
& if

— Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman) May 24, 2022

 

The number of casualties from the shooting has reportedly risen to 21 as of Tuesday evening, including 18 children and three educators. Another woman, the grandmother of the deceased gunman, is in critical condition.

 

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