Salvador Ramos, the suspect in Tuesday's capturing on the Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, reportedly killed 21 individuals in a single classroom after barricading himself inside.

The brand new info was reported by CNN on Wednesday, citing Texas Division of Public Security spokesperson Lt. Chris Olivarez. The 21 killed included 19 youngsters and two lecturers, all of whom had been situated in a single classroom.

"It is a small classroom, you possibly can have wherever from 25 to 30 college students in there, plus there have been two lecturers in there....So haven't got precise variety of what number of college students had been in that classroom, but it surely may range," Olivarez informed CNN on Wednesday. "It was a classroom setting, a typical classroom setting the place you might have mass teams of youngsters inside that classroom all collectively, with nowhere to go."

The Uvalde Consolidated Impartial College District first reported the capturing on Fb, writing: "There may be an lively shooter at Robb Elementary. Regulation enforcement is on website. Your cooperation is required at the moment by not visiting the campus."

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The suspect within the Uvalde faculty capturing barricaded himself in a single classroom, the place he killed 21 individuals, officers mentioned. Above, an officer walks outdoors of Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, on Could 24, 2022.Allison Dinner/Getty

Shortly after the capturing, Texas Governor Greg Abbott reported that at the very least 14 youngsters and one trainer had been killed, however the quantity grew. Abbott confirmed that Ramos had died within the faculty.

"There are households who're in mourning proper now and the state of Texas is in mourning with them for the truth that these mother and father will not be gonna be capable of decide up their youngsters," Abbott mentioned throughout a press convention on Tuesday.

Newsweek reached out to the Texas Division of Public Security for remark.

In a sequence of tweets, Division of Homeland Safety Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Marsha Espinosa wrote that a number of border patrol brokers responded to the capturing.

"Risking their very own lives, these Border Patrol Brokers and different officers put themselves between the shooter and youngsters on the scene to attract the shooter's consideration away from potential victims and save lives," Espinosa wrote.

"At the very least one Border Patrol Agent was wounded by the shooter through the change of gunfire. On-and-off responsibility Border Patrol Brokers arrived on the scene to help with transferring college students safely to their households and offering medical help."

The capturing prompted an array of responses from officers throughout the U.S., in addition to different nations, with many calling for stricter gun legal guidelines.

"I'm sick and bored with it. We've to behave. And do not inform me we will not have an effect on this carnage," U.S. President Joe Biden mentioned on Tuesday night time. "I spent my profession as a senator and as vp working to go commonsense gun legal guidelines.

"We will not and will not forestall each tragedy. However we all know they work and have a optimistic affect. Once we handed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the regulation expired, mass shootings tripled."

Replace 5/25/22, 10:12 a.m. ET: This story has been up to date with extra info.