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TRAGIC: 19 Children Killed In Texas School Shooting

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A gunman walked into a school here Tuesday and killed at least 21 people, including 19 children, in another mass shooting in an America that daily buries victims of gun violence amid divisive political debates over 2nd Amendment rights and the gaze of disbelief from the outside world.

The killings in this predominately Latino city were, as happens so often, the work of a lone man who took unsuspecting lives in a barrage of gunfire.

Officials say Salvador Ramos, 18, carrying a rifle, entered Robb Elementary School in the working-class city of about 16,000 people approximately 80 miles west of San Antonio.

“He shot and killed — horrifically, incomprehensibly,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said.

A Border Patrol agent who works as part of a tactical team near the school, which is about 50 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, fired the shots that killed the gunman, according to a law enforcement source.

Another source said investigators were not sure whether the school was the gunman’s intended target or whether it became one after he crashed his vehicle nearby.

A federal law enforcement official said Ramos may have perceived it as the softest target where he could create the greatest carnage.

Pete Arredondo, police chief for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, said Tuesday afternoon that investigators believed “the suspect did act alone during this heinous crime.”

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