19 children killed in Texas elementary school shooting | Murder

19 children killed in Texas elementary school shooting | Murder. 19 children killed in Texas elementary school shooting; gunman dead. A gunman killed 19 children at a Texas elementary school Tuesday in the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since the 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Wearing body armor and firing hundreds of rounds, the 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez said. A U.S. Border Protection agent, one of several responding to the scene, shot and killed the gunman, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told USA TODAY on Tuesday night.