Teenage shooter shot grandmother before killing 19 children, 2 teachers

8th mass shooting in US this year

Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 01:00

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18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos opened fire on Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children and three adults as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the latest gruesome moment for a country scarred by a string of massacres.

官員說(shuō)道：周二，18歲持槍歹徒?Salvador Ramos在德州的一家小學(xué)開(kāi)槍射擊，他從一間教室走向另一間教室，槍殺至少19名小孩和3名成人，對(duì)于這個(gè)遭受了一系列大屠殺的國(guó)家來(lái)說(shuō)，這是最新的可怕時(shí)刻。

Gunman：持槍歹徒；持槍殺人者

Gruesome?/?ɡru?s?m/?adj.?令人厭惡的；恐怖的；可怕的?? a gruesome murder 駭人聽(tīng)聞的謀殺案

massacre /?m?s?k?(r)/ n. 屠殺，殘殺；<非正式>（運(yùn)動(dòng)或比賽中的）慘敗?v. （大規(guī)模地）屠殺，殺戮；<非正式>（比賽或競(jìng)爭(zhēng)等中）使慘敗，徹底擊敗；<非正式>笨拙地演奏（演唱）

The attacker was killed by law enforcement.

該名襲擊者被執(zhí)法機(jī)關(guān)擊斃。

The gunman also killed his grandmother before heading to the school with two military-style?rifles?he had purchased on his birthday, Gutierrez said. “That was the first thing he did on his 18th birthday,” Police said.

?Gutierrez說(shuō)，槍手還殺死了他的祖母，然后拿著他生日那天買的兩把軍用步槍去了學(xué)校。警方說(shuō):“這是他18歲生日時(shí)做的第一件事?！?/span>

rifle/?ra?fl/ ?步槍；來(lái)復(fù)槍

It was the eighth mass shooting this year, according to the Everytown gun control group, and came 10 days after another 18-year-old murdered 10 African Americans at a supermarket in New York.

根據(jù)槍支管制組織Everytown的數(shù)據(jù)，這是今年的第八起大規(guī)模槍擊事件，10天前，另一名18歲的年輕人在紐約一家超市殺害了10名非洲裔美國(guó)人。

Nearly 10 years after a man slaughtered 20 children and six others in an attack on the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, and four years after 17 were killed at a Florida high school, restrictions on gun purchases and ownership have not significantly changed. （新德里TV）

大約10年前，一名男子在康涅狄格州紐敦的桑迪胡克小學(xué)(Sandy Hook)殺害了20名兒童和其他6人；4年前，佛羅里達(dá)州一所高中有17人被殺。如今，對(duì)槍支購(gòu)買和擁有的限制沒(méi)有明顯改變。

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