Killer named as Salvador Ramos after 14 children and teacher shot dead in US school massacre

The shooter who killed 14 children and a teacher in a massacre at an Elementary School in Texas has been named as a local teenager. In the United States, elementary schools usually educate pupils aged between 5 and 11 years old.

State governor Greg Abbott said that the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was now dead after “swift action” was taken by law enforcement at the scene. Officials in Texas say the killer shot his own grandmother before heading to the school, of which he was once himself a pupil.

“The shooter is no longer alive,” Mr Abbott said. “The shooter was Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old male who resided in Uvalde.”

“Mr. Ramos, the shooter, he himself is deceased, and it is believed that responding officers killed him. Two responding officers were struck by rounds but have no serious injuries.”

Mr Abbott said Ramos opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 85 miles west of San Antonio. It was the deadliest school shooting in Texas history and occurred four years after a gunman fatally shot 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area.

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“He shot and killed, horrifically, incomprehensibly, 14 students and killed a teacher,” said the governor, adding that two officers were shot and wounded but were expected to survive.

The gunman was a resident of the community and entered the school with a handgun, and possibly a rifle, and opened fire, Mr Abbott said. He said the gunman was likely to have been killed by responding officers but that the events were still being investigated.

Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District chief of police Pete Arredondo said at a news conference that the gunman acted alone. It was not immediately