One of the teachers killed was named by her family as Eva Mireles, 44. The second was named as Irma Garcia, a 46 year-old mother of four and 23-year veteran of the school, who was Mireles’s co-teacher.
Both women taught the fourth grade class together, and appeared to be close friends.
Ramos, who was born in North Dakota but lived in Uvalde, had been a student at Uvalde High School, Abbott said. One of his friends at high school said he was teased about his clothes and his family’s financial situation.
He worked at Wendy’s, where staff remembered him as quiet. Ramos’s young victims were aged between seven and 11, CNN’s Ed Lavandera reported.
On Tuesday night their names were beginning to be confirmed by family members. Children confirmed dead by family members included 10-year-olds Xavier Lopez, Eliahana Torres, and Makenna Elrod, and eight-year-old Uziyah Garcia.
Another girl called Ellie Garcia was also confirmed to have died by her grieving parnets. ‘My nephew was a victim of a school shooting today,’ Mitch Renfro wrote on Facebook, confirming Garcia’s death.
‘An 8-year-old was killed by a crazy man.’ The missing included Rogelio Torres and Nevaeh Bravo.
The father of 10-year-old Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez said that she was also still missing.
‘He shot and killed – horrifically and incomprehensibly – 14 students and killed a teacher,’ Abbott said at a press briefing. The death toll was later revised to 19 children.
‘There are families that are in mourning right now. And the state of Texas is in mourning with them.’
It was the deadliest such incident since 14 high school students and three adult staff were killed in Parkland, Florida in 2018 – and the worst at an elementary school since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut, in which 20 children and six staff were killed.
‘The idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong,’ said Joe Biden, addressing the country from the White House on Tuesday night.