Another school shooting in the USA, 15 dead.
While those Iranians who let themselves be influenced by enemy psy-ops and propaganda may stay under the delusion that crime levels in the USA and Iran are even remotely "similar", the actual fact is that none of this ever happens in Iran, and that Iranians are incomparably more secure than Americans.
Unlike residents of the USA, Iranians do not have to live in constant fear that their children will get murdered while at school, among many other such examples. Simply mind-boggling is the level of lunacy, depravity and barbarianism US society has reached.
Sad for sure, but also excessively revolting. Revolting what horrors the US regime and its perverted system is making its citizens endure.
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14 students, one teacher killed in Texas elementary school shooting
Published Tue, May 24 20224:20 PM EDT Updated 2 Hours Ago
Elisha Fieldstadt, Minyvonne Burke and Dennis Romero
14 children, 1 teacher dead in Texas school shooting
Fourteen students and one teacher were killed in a shooting Tuesday morning at a Texas elementary school, Gov. Greg Abbott said.
The suspected shooter, who might have had a handgun and a rifle, was fatally wounded in the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 83 miles west of San Antonio, he said.
“It is believed that he abandoned his vehicle, then entered into the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde with a handgun, and he may have also had a rifle,” Abbott said in a news briefing.
“He shot and killed, horrifically and incomprehensibly, 14 students and killed a teacher,” the governor said.
A woman reacts outside the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022.
The mass casualty incident, reported shortly after 11:30 a.m., was no longer active Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The suspected shooter was identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, multiple senior law enforcement sources said.
“The investigation is leading to tell us the suspect did act alone during this heinous crime,” Pete Arredondo, the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, said at a news conference.
Families of the deceased were being notified, he said.
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the attack and will likely address the nation this evening, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on
Twitter.
“His prayers are with the families impacted by this awful event, and he will speak this evening when he arrives back at the White House,” she said.
Initial accounts indicated 13 children were taken to the emergency room at Uvalde Memorial Hospital after the shooting at Robb Elementary, according to a
Facebook statement and hospital CEO Tom Nordwick. Two were transferred and one is pending a transfer, Nordwick said in a phone call.
People react outside the Sgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022.
In addition, two people were pronounced dead before they arrived at the hospital, Nordwick said. Their names and ages were not released.
Two officers were struck when they apparently exchanged gunfire with the shooter, Abbott said. They sustained non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
University Health, based in San Antonio, said in a
tweet that it was treating a child and a 66-year-old woman who is listed in critical condition. The child, a 10-year-old girl, was also in critical condition, the hospital said.
The school serves second through fourth grades in a city that’s nearly half non-English speaking, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
News of the suspect’s capture came less than an hour after the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District announced on Twitter that there was “an active shooter” at the elementary school.
“Law enforcement is on site. Your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus. As soon as more information is gathered it will be shared,” the tweet said.
The public was urged to avoid the area, according to the police department’s Facebook post.
Students were being taken to Uvalde High School for reunification with parents, police and the school district said. But the district asked parents not to pick up their children.
“You will be notified to pick up students once all are accounted for,” an update from the district said.
The district’s last day of school is Thursday.
The shooting occurred after
new FBI statistics released Monday showed active shooter incidents in 2021 surged by more than 50 percent from 2020 and by nearly 97 percent from 2017.
Uvalde, incorporated in 1888 as a ranch and crossroads town, has a population of 8,921, according to the census.
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An 18-year-old suspect was fatally wounded by responding law enforcers, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said.
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