

President Joe Biden gave an impassioned plea for change last night, saying: “When, in God’s name, are we going to stand up to the gun lobby”. The shooting, in which 19 children and two teachers were killed, has been met with statements of shock from leaders around the world and sparked a fresh debate domestically on US gun violence. The gunman then entered a back door and went down two short hallways, and then into a classroom on the left-hand side.” “Officers… engaged the gunman at that time. The gunman fled and, as he was fleeing, had an (vehicle) accident just outside of the elementary school and he ran into the school. “The first thing that happened was that the gunman shot his grandmother in the face,” he said. “We are closely cooperating with law enforcement in their ongoing investigation,” said Andy Stone, spokesman for Facebook’s parent company Meta.Ībbott also gave basic details of Tuesday’s attack. “The second post was ‘I shot my grandmother.’ The third post, maybe less than 15 minutes before arriving at the school was ‘I’m going to shoot an elementary school.’”įacebook rapidly released a statement after Abbott’s comments, saying the posts “were private one-to-one text messages that were discovered after the terrible tragedy occurred.” “The first post was to the point of, he said ‘I’m going to shoot my grandmother,’” Abbott said. Texas Governor Greg Abbott told a press conference that the gunman had shot his grandmother in the face before travelling to the school, adding that the attack was carried out with an AR-15 assault rifle. THE GUNMAN WHO shot and killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in south Texas posted his plan on Facebook 15 minutes before carrying out the attack, the local Governor confirmed this evening.
