Uvalde Elementary School Shooting Suspect Is 18-Year-Old Student Salvador Roma

Salvador Roma, 18, Now Dead, Identified As Gunman Who Killed 14 Students & A Teacher At Uvalde Elementary School

Uvalde Elementary School gunman who killed 14 students and one teacher has been identified as 18 year old student, Salvador Roma.

The gunman was a student at Uvalde High School, and shot his own grandmother before going to the elementary school and killing 14 students and a teacher.

The shooting comes just 10 days after a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., that took the lives of 10 people.

 

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Education Week has been tracking school shootings since 2018. According to its database, 119 such incidents have taken place.

The U.S. has surpassed 200 mass shootings this year. The Gun Violence Archive, an independent data collection organization, has counted 212 mass shootings that have occurred so far this year, as of Tuesday.

It defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people were shot or killed, excluding the shooter.