Salvador Ramos: Everything we know about Texas school shooting suspect

Texas school shooting: Officials claimed the 18-year-old Uvalde high school student carried out the biggest mass shooting at a US elementary school since Sandy Hook.

Salvador Ramos, 18, has been identified as the gunman who killed at least 18 pupils and three adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.

Governor Greg Abbott claimed Ramos carried out the mass shooting “horribly and incomprehensibly” before being shot dead by police.

According to Mr Abbott, Ramos was a student at Uvalde High School in the little city 130 kilometres (80 miles) west of San Antonio.

Mr Abbott stated at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon that he shot his grandmother before travelling to Robb Elementary just before midday.

Ramos is thought to have left his car outside the school and entered the premises armed with a handgun and possibly a rifle. According to police, the gunman was wearing body armour.

Officers called to the scene allegedly shot Romas dead. Two people suffered non-life threatening injuries.

According to Uvalde Memorial Hospital, a bus and an ambulance took 13 pupils and one adult to the school. On arrival, two of the pupils were pronounced deceased.

There was no additional information available concerning Ramos’ grandmother’s condition at the time.

Ramos’ Instagram account, which news sources recognised as his, showed him posing with what seems to be a semi-automatic handgun.

Mr Abbott said in a statement that Texans were mourning for the victims of this “senseless atrocity and for the town of Uvalde.”

The 18 pupils and one teacher killed are the deadliest elementary school attack since the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which killed 20 students and six teachers.

The death toll has slowly grown throughout the day, with officials raising the figure from 14 to 18 on Tuesday evening.

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