Parents run towards the unfolding Texas elementary school massacre that saw 19 children shot dead in harrowing footage.
Eyewitness footage shows parents racing towards Robb Elementary School in Uvalde as the shooting was taking place.
Six of the nineteen children who were tragically killed have been identified, along with two teachers.
The video was posted to Snapchat and shared across social media and showed at least two other people standing recording.
The caption read: “Kids are running out of the classrooms” with a broken heart emoji. In the video the parents can be seen running towards the school in the distance.
At what seems to be the entrance to the school a number of what appear to be armed police can be seen as the video zooms in.
The elementary school was placed on lockdown around 11.43am local time when gunshots were heard in the area.
Half-an-hour after that the school reported an “active shooter” and by 1:06pm the shooting incident was reported to have ended.
The tragic shooting was done by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos who was identified as the suspect.
He attended the town’s high school and shot his own grandmother before the rampage. She was last said to be in a critical condition, but alive in hospital.
After crashing his vehicle, he approached the school on foot and began his sickening attack.
More than one person who knew the shooter described him as a loner who kept to himself.
A former classmate said that he had stopped going to school after he got bullied over his clothes and his family being poor.
On his 18th birthday, reportedly only days before the shooting, he bought himself two rifles and sent pictures of ammunition for them to a friend.
The friend, who wasn’t named, spoke to CNN and said: “[He had] probably like seven [magazines].
“I was like: ‘Bro, why do you have this?’ and he was like: ‘Don’t worry about it.’
He also shared an image of the guns on Instagram and tagged a stranger who lived hundreds of miles away.
The school shooter was originally from North Dakota and had only recently moved to Texas.
At school, a former classmate said he was often bullied because of his clothes and showed up less and less because of this.
“He would, like, not go to school...and he just, like, slowly dropped out. He barely came to school,” they said.
