UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An official says an 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a classroom, “shooting anyone that was in his way.”

Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety told NBC’s “Today” that police and others responding to Tuesday’s attack broke windows at the school in an effort to allow students and teachers inside to escape.

Olivarez told CNN that all victims were in the same fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School.

Eventually law enforcement officers broke into the classroom and killed him.

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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two adults as he went from classroom to classroom at a Texas elementary school.

Tuesday’s attack added to a gruesome, years long series of mass killings at churches, schools and stores.

A law enforcement official said the attacker was killed by a Border Patrol agent who rushed into the school without waiting for backup.

The assault at Robb Elementary School in the heavily Latino town of Uvalde was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.

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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school, killing 14 children and a teacher. Gov. Greg Abbott says the gunman is dead.

It was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since the shocking attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago.

Abbott says the gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde with a handgun and possibly a rifle.

Officials have not revealed a motive for the shooting, but Abbott identified him as Salvador Ramos.

He says Ramos was a resident of the community about 85 miles west of San Antonio.