By EU­GENE GAR­CIA and DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Two peo­ple were dead af­ter a shoot­ing at a Texas el­e­men­tary school on Tues­day, and more than two dozen chil­dren were in­jured, hos­pi­tal of­fi­cials said. Po­lice have said the sus­pect­ed shoot­er is in cus­tody.

Thir­teen chil­dren were tak­en by am­bu­lance or bus to Uvalde Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter an ac­tive shoot­er was re­port­ed at Robb El­e­men­tary School in Uvalde, about 85 miles (135 kilo­me­ters) west of San An­to­nio, of­fi­cials with the hos­pi­tal said. The na­ture and sever­i­ty of the peo­ple’s in­juries wasn’t im­me­di­ate­ly known, as is whether the dead are in­clud­ed in that count.

An­oth­er hos­pi­tal, Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal in San An­to­nio, said a 66-year-old woman was in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Au­thor­i­ties did not im­me­di­ate­ly pro­vide any de­tails on the shoot­ing, though the Uvalde Po­lice De­part­ment said the shoot­er was in cus­tody short­ly af­ter 1 p.m.

The Uvalde Con­sol­i­dat­ed In­de­pen­dent School Dis­trict had said an ac­tive shoot­er was re­port­ed at the school, which has an en­roll­ment of just un­der 600 stu­dents. Ear­li­er, the dis­trict had said that all schools in the dis­trict were locked down be­cause of gun­shots in the area.

A heavy po­lice pres­ence sur­round­ed the school Tues­day af­ter­noon, with of­fi­cers in heavy vests di­vert­ing traf­fic and FBI agents com­ing and go­ing from the build­ing. School and city of­fi­cials did not im­me­di­ate­ly re­turn mes­sages seek­ing com­ment.

The dis­trict said that the city’s civic cen­ter was be­ing used as a re­uni­fi­ca­tion cen­ter.

The shoot­ing in Texas came less than two weeks af­ter a gun­man opened fire at a su­per­mar­ket in Buf­fa­lo, New York, killing 10 Black shop­pers and work­ers in what of­fi­cials have de­scribed as a hate crime. Uvalde is home to about 16,000 peo­ple and is the seat of gov­ern­ment for Uvalde Coun­ty. The town is about 75 miles from the bor­der with Mex­i­co. Robb El­e­men­tary is in a most­ly res­i­den­tial neigh­bor­hood of mod­est homes. There is a fu­ner­al home across the street from the school.

Source: As­so­ci­at­ed Press