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    Texas gunman: ‘I’m going to shoot an elementary school’

    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Jenny Jarvie and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times May 25, 2022 7 minutes
    Uvalde, Texas, Mayor Don McLaughlin, right, speaks with an officer outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25, 2022.

    UVALDE, Texas — A gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history, posted his intentions online before barricading himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, where all the fatalities and injuries occurred, state and federal officials said Wednesday.

    “We’re still trying to confirm motive, what triggered him,” Lt. Christopher Olivarez, a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman, told the Los Angeles Times.

    Officials say the rampage began with the suspect, Salvador Ramos, 18, a fast-food worker, shooting his 66-year-old grandmother, Cecilia Martinez Gonzalez, in the face at her home in Uvalde.

    The gunman was spotted minutes later crashing his SUV into a ditch and running toward the school with a rifle. An officer with the Uvalde school district exchanged fire with him before he entered the school. But at least 40 minutes passed — the shooter went through a back door, down two short hallways and ended up in a classroom where he opened fire — before a border patrol officer shot and killed him.

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that Ramos

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