this is kprc 2 news at 10.
right now at 10 tragedy in uvalde he
shot and killed
horrifically incomprehensibly a mass
shooting inside an elementary school
second third fourth graders the lives of
children and teachers taken by a gunman
we need your prayers to get us through
this today's massacre once again fueling
the debate over gun control nowhere else
do little kids go to school thinking
that they might be shot that day you see
democrats and a lot of folks in the
media
whose immediate solution is to try to
restrict
the constitutional rights of law-abiding
citizens all while families grieve after
yet another mass shooting in a texas
school i can't imagine what it would
mean to send your child off to school in
the morning and not have them return
heavy hearts across the country tonight
following an act of evil at an
elementary school the death toll
continues to climb after a gunman went
on a rampage in uvalde we know 19
children and two adults have been killed
in today's mass shooting the gunman has
been identified as 18 year old salvador
ramos he was killed by police the
shooting happened about 80 miles west of
san antonio in a town with a population
of less than 20 thousand and we have
sent our crews to the scene of this
tragedy as grieving families now search
for answers we begin with anchor
danielle guzman leading our coverage
from yavaldi tonight daniela
christine lauren it took us about four
and a half hours to get to uvalde from
houston and i got to tell you the entire
time my heart was in knots just thinking
about all of the unthinkable pain these
family members these parents this
community is going through tonight we're
just outside of rob elementary here in
uvalde where you can see there's still a
very active scene just outside of this
school this community has been changed
forever they're left wondering why how
could this happen again and now what
panicked parents run towards rob
elementary school in uvalde
beautiful
innocent
second third fourth graders
and how many scores of little children
who witnessed what happened
see their friends die
as if they're on a battlefield for god's
sake
a horrific deadly shooting inside the
only elementary school in this small
town activating heavily armed police
officers to move in to save as many
lives as possible and to find the
shooter parents who will never see their
child again
never have them jump in bed and cuddle
with them
parents will never be the same we now
know a local 18 year old high school
student gunned down innocent children
and teachers shaking this quiet
tight-knit community into mourning
texas governor greg abbott says the
shooter was killed by responding police
the suspect did act alone during this
hyannis crime we're in the process of
obtaining detailed background
information on the subject his motive
the types of weapons used the legal
authority to possess them
and conduct a comprehensive crime scene
investigation and reconstruction
as i mentioned this is a small town and
as in small towns this community it's a
type of community where everyone knows
each other so as you can imagine we're
quickly learning about these loved ones
who were killed we want to continue our
team coverage tonight with real wanna be
logan he's outside of the uvalde civic
center we drove by there and that is
where family members are still there
waiting to hear about their loved ones
to get more information real one
yeah daniella just moments ago a number
of people actually exited the civic
center here and i could hear a number of
people crying this as we learned the
identity of two of the victims students
xavier medina and fourth grade teacher
eva morellis now they are some of the
first identified victims of this mass
shooting morale has spent 17 years as an
educator who enjoyed running hiking and
riding her bike her life cut short when
investigators say a gunman went into rob
elementary school with second third and
fourth graders and started shooting in a
statement her aunt says in parts quotes
i never imagined this would happen to
especially to loved ones not all the
facts have been released yet all we can
do is pray hard for our country states
schools and especially the families of
all again fourth grader to fourth grade
teacher eva morales and student xavier
medina leaving behind a number of family
and friends the first identified victims
of this mass shooting reporting live for
mom blog kprc 2 news daniella
real one thank you and now we want to go
to robert arnold we're learning a little
bit more about the suspected shooter and
he's outside the home of the suspect's
grandmother with the very latest
information robert
first i want to update you on some
information we're learning from our
sources they say that they have learned
that the two rifles purchased by the
gunman were purchased legally one on may
17th one on may 20. they also say that
he purchased
375 rounds of ammunition on may 18th
today's horrors though began at that
house behind me as daniela you said that
is believed to be the house of the
grandmother of salvador ramos and
according to state troopers ramos shot
his grandmother during an argument
before taking off and crashing into a
nearby drainage ditch
he went right straight through a
barricade
it's a concrete deal
and the truck's in there eduardo
trinidad saw the aftermath he says
salvador ramos crashed his truck before
shooting hit responding officers
trinidad snapped these photos including
a bag and rifle he believes ramos
dropped next to the truck before running
off trinidad is a former in-law of
ramos's grandmother he was a loner
because my
nephews worked with him at burger king
and
he was kind of like he kind of like a
loner you know after crashing the truck
and firing at officers ramos ran into
nearby robb elementary at that point as
he made entry he began shooting children
teachers anybody that was in his way he
was shooting
people that were in front of him
lieutenant chris olivares says several
officers raced into the school to try to
stop the rampage they were met with
gunfire by the suspect and at that point
several officers were shot by the
suspect olivares says ramos was killed
during the fire fight with police
federal agents including the fbi spent
much of the evening interviewing
neighbors living around his
grandmother's house as of now no motive
has emerged he expects something like
this in san antonio in bigger cities
you know we're just watching that stuff
that happened up in new york you know
and
it's crazy
one other point we learned from our
sources is initially troopers thought
that ramos was wearing ballistic armor
but
upon closer inspection they learned it
was just a carrier but there were no
ballistic plates inside so we had the
outer part but no ballistic plating
inside reporting live from uvalde robert
arnold krc 2 news
robert thank you well speaking about a
tragedy like this is difficult as it is
and imagine speaking it to our children
again and trying to explain another
school shooting to them devin clark
spoke to an expert tonight and
devin what did that expert tell you
about how do we approach this type of
very difficult conversation and sad
conversation with our kids
daniella i'll get to that in a minute
but let's start with a prayer vigil that
happened tonight it feels unfortunately
familiar congresswoman sheila jackson
lee making an outcry to lawmakers this
as local child psychologists are forced
to help parents navigate through yet
another child massacre
while hope persists so do the growing
numbers of deadly school shootings
virginia tech 32
dead
sandy hook elementary babies 26
marjory stoneman douglas high school 17.
the uvalde robb elementary school
massacre now sits at the end of a long
list i'm broken tonight
i'm stunned
i'm speechless
it was the focal point of a prayer vigil
congresswoman sheila jackson lee held
outside of the federal building in
downtown houston as an outcry for gun
safety legislation meanwhile the
painstaking familiarity of the uvalde
shooting has local pediatric
psychologists offering advice to help
guide parents through the ordeal it's
important not to lie so saying you know
this this tragedy happens something
terrible happens today
here's how i feel about it how do you
feel about it but really limiting the
exposure that they see on television
clinic chief at the texas children's
hospital psychology service dr marnie
axelrod says with young children
especially it's also important for
parents and guardians to limit their
emotional responses so the kids don't
absorb more grief while with young
children we might say a terrible thing
happened children at school got hurt
today
with older children it's important to
have a conversation with the truth
here's what happened here's how i feel
about it
dr axelrod adds that it's also important
to remind kids that statistically it is
still unlikely for a school shooting to
happen to them and also keep a lookout
for signs of continued emotional
distress such as
fear and losing sleep not wanting to
speak she says at that point it's time
to seek professional help reporting live
downtown devin clark kprc 2 news
devin thank you and we will stay here
and continue to bring you breaking
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in the meantime we're live in uvalde i'm
daniela guzman kprc 2 news back to you
all right daniella we certainly know the
pain is palpable there and our hearts
are with everyone in uvalde thank you
and be sure to stay with kprc2 for
complete coverage on the uvalde school
massacre our live team coverage does
continue tomorrow morning on kprc 2 news
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