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Washington (AFP) - The day after his 18th birthday, Salvador Ramos, a troubled teenager from small town Texas, bought his first assault rifle.A week later he walked into a local elementary school where he shot and killed 19 small children and two of their teachers.

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Republican also called for teachers to be armed

UVALDE, Texas — A gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history barricaded himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, where all the fatalities and injuries occurred, state and federal officials said Wednesday.

Matthew McConaughey urged Americans to “find a common ground” after at least 21 people, including 19 children, were killed in an elementary school shooting in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.

The Texas school shooting is one of the deadliest since the Sandy Hook massacre

‘Those kids were so excited to see us in our cap and gown,’ graduating senior says

Uvalde (United States) (AFP) - A tight-knit Latino community in Texas was wracked with grief Wednesday after a teenager wearing body armor marched into an elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers -- the latest spasm of America's gun violence crisis.

‘He posted videos on his Instagram where the cops were there and he’d call his mom a b****,’ classmate recalls

The attacker is said to have purchased the guns on his 18th birthday. He murdered 19 children and two teachers in Texas.

A pair of passionate educators struck when gunfire broke out inside a Texas elementary school died protecting the students they dedicated their lives to teaching.