Global InformationUvalde school shooting information
| Uvalde school shooting | |
|---|---|
 Police officers inside the school during the shooting, 17 minutes before Ramos was killed | |
 Location of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas | |
| Location | Robb Elementary School, 715 Old Carrizo Road Uvalde, Texas, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 29°11′58″N 99°47′18″W / 29.19944°N 99.78833°W |
| Date | May 24, 2022 11:28 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. (UTC−05:00) |
| Target | Students and staff at Robb Elementary School |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, school shooting, pedicide, shootout |
| Weapons | Daniel Defense DDM4 V7[1][2] |
| Deaths | 22 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 21 (18 directly, including the perpetrator's grandmother at her home,[3] 3 minor injuries in conflicts with police[4]) |
| Perpetrator | Salvador Rolando Ramos[5] |
| Motive | Unknown |
| Convictions | 15-year-old convicted of failing to report planned crimes |
The Uvalde school shooting[6][7][8] was a mass shooting that occurred on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos,[9][10] a former student at the school, fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, while 17 others were injured but survived. After shooting and severely wounding his grandmother at their home earlier that day,[11] Ramos drove to and entered the school, remaining in an adjoining classroom for more than an hour before members of the United States Border Patrol Tactical Unit fatally shot him after they bypassed numerous local and state officers who had been in the school's hallways for over an hour.[12][13]
Police officers waited more than 1 hour and 14 minutes on-site before breaching the classroom to engage the shooter.[14] Police also cordoned off the school grounds, resulting in violent conflicts between police and civilians, including parents, who were attempting to enter the school to rescue children.[15][16][17] As a consequence, law enforcement officials in Uvalde have been heavily criticized for their response to the shooting,[18] and their conduct is being reviewed in separate investigations by the Texas Ranger Division and the United States Department of Justice.[19] Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials laid much of the responsibility for the police response on Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department (UCISD PD) Chief Pedro Arredondo, who they identified as the incident commander. Arredondo disputed the characterization of his role as incident commander, but was later fired by the Uvalde school board for his actions during the shooting. A report conducted by the Texas House of Representatives Investigative Committee attributed the fault more widely to "systemic failures and egregious poor decision making" by many authorities. The report said, "At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety... there was an unacceptably long period of time before officers breached the classroom, neutralized the attacker, and began rescue efforts."[20][21]
Shortly after the shooting, local and state officials gave inaccurate reports of the timeline of events and exaggerated police actions.[22] The Texas Department of Public Safety acknowledged that it was an error for law enforcement to delay an assault on Ramos' position in the student-filled classrooms, attributing this to the school district police chief's assessment of the situation as one with a "barricaded subject" instead of an "active shooter".[23][24] Law enforcement was also aware there were injured individuals in the school before they made their entrance.[25][26]
Following the shooting, which occurred 10 days after the 2022 Buffalo shooting,[27] wider discussions ensued about American gun culture and violence, gridlock in politics,[28] and law enforcement's failure to halt or intervene during the attack. Around a month after the shooting, Congress passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and President Joe Biden signed the bill into law; it was the most significant federal gun reform legislation since the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.[29]
Following the shooting, Robb Elementary was closed. The district plans to demolish the building and build a replacement.[30]
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