Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that 18-year-old suspect, a student at Uvalde High School, is also dead, he said. He’s identified as Salvador Ramos.
“He shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensibly 14 students and killed a teacher,” Abbott said during an unrelated press briefing.
The suspect also allegedly shot his grandmother before entering the school and again opening fire, Abbott said. He did not say anything further about her condition.
Abbott said the shooter had a handgun and also possibly a rifle.
The shooter, who caused a district-wide lockdown on Tuesday, is now in custody, police said.
The Uvalde Memorial Hospital said it received 13 children from ambulance and buses for treatment, and that two people who arrived at the hospital were deceased. A second hospital said it is caring for one child and one adult. That hospital, University Health, said a 66-year-old woman is in critical condition.
South Texas Blood and Tissue said it sent 15 units of blood to Uvalde on Tuesday.
The two children who were killed had died by the time they arrived at the hospital, said Adam Apolinar, the hospital spokesman. Their ages were not immediately released. The conditions of those who were injured were unclear. The Uvalde Police Department said just after 1 p.m. that the assailant was in custody.
“There is potential for other students to come and be looked at,” Mr. Apolinar said.
In an earlier update, the hospital said several students from the school, Robb Elementary, were being treated in the emergency room.
Another hospital, University Health in San Antonio, said that it had received two patients, a child and an adult, from the shooting. The adult is a 66-year-old woman, who was in critical condition, the hospital said in an update. The condition of the child was unclear.
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District said on Twitter that there was an “active shooter” at the school around noon.
The school district said it had designated the DeLeon Civic Center, about a mile and a half from the school, as a reunification site for parents to pick up their children.
Uvalde is a city of about 16,000 people about 84 miles west of San Antonio.
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