A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school said she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive.

Mother of the 18-year-old who gunned down 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school has said, “My son wasn’t a violent person,” according to BBC.

Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old from Texas who killed at least 19 children at an elementary school in the US state, reportedly acted alone.

Salvador Ramos, the teenager who murdered at least 19 children after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, bought the guns on his 18th birthday.

Americans must stand up to the gun lobby and pressure members of Congress to pass sensible gun laws, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday after the killing of at least 19 children and two teachers in a Texas school shooting.

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade and the latest gruesome moment for a country scarred by a string of massacres. The attacker was killed by law enforcement.