Parents Waited For Hours For News After Texas School Massacre

By CBSDFW Staff, CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

May 25, 2022

It happened just two days before students were to begin summer break, a teenage gunman entered a Texas elementary school and opened fire, killing 19 children and two teachers. It is the deadliest school shooting in almost a decade.

The violent act shook a nation still reeling from a mass shooting just 10 days ago. The siege in Uvalde, Texas, ended when law enforcement killed the 18-year-old gunman, officials said, and parents waited late into Tuesday night at a civic center to learn whether their children had survived, some having given DNA to help authorities identify victims.

Now, the city about 90 miles west of San Antonio and just east of the US-Mexican border finds itself on the long list of American communities devastated by mass shootings.

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