New York lawmakers and education advocates expressed sadness and outrage over Tuesday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas in which 19 elementary school children and two educators were shot and killed by an 18-year old perpetrator.
An additional 15 children and one police officer were injured, making this shooting the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook and the deadliest ever in Texas.This was the 27th mass shooting in 2022, and shortly followed New York State’s mass shooting in Buffalo which occured on May 14.
