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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 6 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 before barricading himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, where all the fatalities and injuries occurred, state and federal officials said Wednesday.

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

    The rampage began with Salvador Ramos shooting his 66-year-old grandmother, Cecilia Martinez Gonzalez, in the face at her home in Uvalde.

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Ramos was a high school dropout with no criminal record or mental health history. He gave no warning of his crime, Abbott said, until about 30 minutes before he reached the school, when he posted on Facebook that he was going to shoot his grandmother, who had worked as a teacher’s aide for the elementary school until 2020.

    In a second post on Facebook, the gunman

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