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Salvador Ramos is 18 years old. He lives with his grandmother in Texas, US. He buys guns on his birthday. He writes on social media that he will shoot his grandmother. Then he shoots her in her face.
Then he gets in a car. He drives to an elementary school. He gets inside through a back door. He kills 19 children and two adults.
The event is the worst school shooting in the US in the last 10 years. It is the 27th school shooting this year.
Parents are scared to send their children to school. Children are scared to go to school. The US president says that the gun lobby must stop.
Difficult words: elementary school (a school for children between five and eleven years old), adult (a person who is older than a child), lobby (a group of people who talk to politicians, and they want them to change laws).
Level-2
Last week, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Texas, US.
Ramos lived with his grandmother, and he wrote on social media that he would kill her. He shot her in the face, got in a car, and drove to the school. He crashed the car nearby. His grandmother survived the attack, and she called the police. Meanwhile, Ramos entered the school through a back door, and he started shooting. He had guns which he bought on his birthday. Reports said that police killed him at the scene.
The Texas shooting was the worst school shooting in the US in the last ten years, and it was the 27th school shooting this year. The US president said that the government must stop the gun lobby. Children are now scared to go to school, and parents are worried if they would see their children after school.
Difficult words: survive (to be alive after something bad happens), scene (the place where something happens), lobby (a group of people who want to make politicians change the law because it will help them).
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A teenage gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Texas, US, killing 19 children and two adults.
The suspect was identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, and according to police, he acted alone. Ramos armed himself with rifles that he purchased on his birthday, and before heading to the school, he shot his grandmother. However, the woman survived her wounds, and she called the police.
Meanwhile, Ramos fled the house, crashed his car near the school, and then entered through a back door. The shooter was a high school dropout and had no criminal record. He died at the scene, reportedly by police.
Children aged 7 to 11 were at the school, and the event was the deadliest school shooting in the US in the last decade. It was also the 27th school shooting in the country this year. The White House lowered its flag to honor the victims; the US president said that the government needed was to stand up to the gun lobby.
Difficult words: dropout (a student who leaves school before finishing it), honor (to show great respect for someone in public), lobby (an organized group of people who influence lawmakers on a particular issue).
Wow 😮
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