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Gunman 'had bought two military-style rifles on his birthday'

UVALDE, Texas: A gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in a rural Texas elementary school, a state police official said, in the deadliest American school shooting since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary a decade ago.

President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after the massacre

HOUSTON — A gunman walked into a Texas school Tuesday and killed at least 19 people, including 18 children, in another mass shooting in an America that daily buries victims of gun violence amid divisive political debates over Second Amendment rights and the gaze of disbelief from the outside world.

President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms

Salvador Ramos, who killed 19 children and two adults on Tuesday, contacted a woman he didn't know on Instagram and told her that he had "a secret" while posing with guns days before the massacre

18-year-old gunman is also dead

In a statement, the Rockets and Fertitta family expressed devastation at the “unspeakable tragedy” in Uvalde, Texas, where the deadliest school shooting in state history occurred Tuesday.

AUSTIN, Texas — In the immediate aftermath of the deadly school shooting in Uvalde on Tuesday, some Texas Republicans pushed back against renewed calls for more restrictive gun laws.