Wednesday 25 May 2022 01:10 AM PICTURED: Missing girl, 10, who is feared to be victim of Texas elementary ... trends now
A 10 year-old girl remains missing following Tuesday's massacre at a Texas elementary school that killed 18 students, her stricken father has said.
Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez is feared to be one of the victims of the mass-shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Her dad, who has not been named, told Fox News that he hasn't heard from her since gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, opened fire inside the school this afternoon.
The youngster's dad has also given her photo to Texas Rangers in the hope that they'll be able to track her down.
A mobile morgue was snapped pulling up outside the school earlier on Tuesday as medical examiners began the grim task of identifying the victims.
Also killed by Ramos was a teacher. The gunman himself was killed, and is believed to have been gunned-down by cops who responded to the incident.
Additionally, 13 children are being treated at the Uvalde Memorial emergency room as well as a 45-year-old man who suffered a 'graze.'
Cops told a press conference Tuesday night that they'd work to contact the victims of the deceased as soon as their remains were identified.
Annabelle Rodriquez, 10, pictured here, a student at Robb Elementary School is missing, her frantic father told FoxNews
University Health San Antonio also confirmed they received a child whose condition is currently unknown and a 66-year-old woman who is critical condition.
Robb Elementary School, which has 600 students enrolled, is located in the city of Uvalde, hometown of Matthew McConaughey, 60 miles east of the Mexican border and 80 miles west of San Antonio.
Concerned parents were captured at the scene desperately searching for their children and video from the chaotic scene showed police arriving to the school campus with their guns in hand.
One widely shared video appears to show the suspected gunman approach the school while what sounds like gunfire is going off in the background.
Videos taken in the immediate aftermath of the shooting show mothers frantically running towards the campus to collect their kids.
Salvador Ramos, 18, shot his grandmother before going to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde; engaging border patrol agents nearby in a shootout; and then barricading himself inside the school, killing 14 students and a teacher
The school warned parents to stay away and instead collect their children from a rendezvous point after they had been 'accounted for'.
'Your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus. As soon as more information is gathered it will be shared.'
Ninety percent of the school's students are Hispanic and there are some 70 teachers.
It is one many schools in the district that is a stone's throw from the Mexican border, with the city of Coahuila 220 miles away. The school sits on the outskirts of the city of Uvalde, population 16,000.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told Fox News that shots were fired off site, and that after shooting one person, the gunman ran to the school where he barricaded himself inside.
The district said that the city's civic center will be used as a reunification center and that parents will be able to pick up their children there once everyone is accounted for.
A mobile morgue was seen arriving at the school on Tuesday afternoon.
Ted Cruz, a Republican US senator from Texas, tweeted that he and his wife are 'lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde.'
Ken Paxton, the attorney general for Texas, told Fox News that more teachers should carry guns.
'We can't stop bad people from doing bad things,' he said, adding that he had 'never understood that argument'.
A woman cries while speaking on the phone outside the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School to be picked up following the shooting
A board with the list of classes and teachers is displayed outside the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center
'We can harden these schools. We can create points of access that are difficult to get through.
'We can potentially arm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly.
'The reality is that we don't have the resources to have law enforcement at every school.
'So it takes time for law enforcement - now matter how prepared, no matter how good they are - to get there. So having the right training for some of these people at the school is the best hope.
Robb elementary school, which has 600 students enrolled, is located in Uvalde - 60 miles east of the Mexican border and 80 miles west of San Antonio
'Nothing is going to work perfectly, but that, in my opinion it's the best answer to this problem.'
But Senator Chris Murphy, a Democratic from Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook
