The front cover of the New York Post on May 26, 2022 features the 19 children murdered at Robb Elementary School.

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Uvalde Justice of the Peace Eulalio Diaz was tasked with the excruciating job of identifying the bodies of the 21 victims shot dead at Robb Elementary School in the small Texas town Tuesday.

Diaz worked into the night identifying the 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down in their fourth-grade classroom as families of the unaccounted for anxiously waited outside the Uvalde civic center for any updates, the El Paso Times reported.

Local authorities swabbed members of the waiting families for DNA in an effort to help identify the children who didn’t make it out of the school.

“Some of the children were not in good shape,” Diaz told the El Paso Times.

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A Robb Elementary School teacher recalled the harrowing moment she heard the sound of gunfire ricochet down the hall when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos allegedly began his rampage.

The teacher, who asked to be anonymous, told NBC News in a Wednesday interview that the ensuing mass shooting where the gunman allegedly killed 19 students and two teachers in another classroom was “the longest 35 minutes of my life.”

She said she heard the unmistakable sound of gunshots erupt as her students were watching a Disney movie Tuesday to celebrate the last week of class when she heard gunfire erupt down the hall.

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Hundreds of mourners packed the bleachers lining the Uvalde Fairplex rodeo arena for a somber prayer vigil Wednesday night, a day after 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered at Robb Elementary School.

Gov. Greg Abbott, his challenger Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Ted Cruz joined the grieving residents of Uvalde, a close-knit town of 16,000 in between San Antonio and the Mexican border, for the heartbreaking event, which was punctuated by sobs and wails.

Many of the devastated mourners, who mostly wore Uvalde High School merchandise emblazoned with a coyote mascot, became hysterical when a solo violinist closed the vigil with a rendition of “Amazing Grace”.

“We pray for the little children who saw what happened to their friends,” Baptist Temple Church pastor Tony Gruben said. 

“And we pray that God will heal their little hearts and their little souls. God is within Uvalde, she will not fall.”

Salvador Ramos sent chilling messages to a girl in Germany shortly before he slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at an Elementary School in Texas.

Ramos had been chatting with the 15-year-old girl on social media apps and FaceTime. On the day of the shooting, he texted the girl at around 11:01 a.m. Central Time and told her that he loved her.

Six minutes later he said “I just shot my grandma in her head,” according to CNN. Then, seconds later, he wrote “Ima go shoot up a(n) elementary school rn (right now).”

Loner Salvador Ramos’ reign of terror inside a Texas elementary school lasted as long as an hour before he was shot dead — a twisted chain of events that started when he purchased a pair of AR-15-style rifles for his 18th birthday.

The high-school dropout celebrated his milestone birthday with a dinner at Applebee’s on May 16 with his grandmother, Celia Martinez Gonzales — whom he’d go on to callously shoot in the face before unleashing a bloodbath inside a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

Exactly one week before the mass shooting, and the day after his birthday, Ramos headed to local sporting goods store Oasis Outback to buy a “semiautomatic rifle,” Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw confirmed at a press conference.

He returned the next day to buy 375 rounds of ammunition and then again two days later, last Friday, to pick up a Daniel Defense AR-style rifle, McCraw said.

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The father of Robb Elementary School massacre victim Amerie Jo Garza was told his daughter was dead by the girl’s best friend, he said on CNN Wednesday night.

Father Angel Garza recounted how he was responding to the school as a med-aide to assist in the mass shooting’s aftermath and saw a little girl “covered in blood head to toe.”

“I thought she was injured, I asked her what was wrong and she said she’s OK,” Garza told Anderson Cooper. “She was hysterical, saying that they shot her best friend, that they killed her best friend, she’s not breathing and she was trying to call the cops.

“And I asked the little girl the name and she told me, she said Amerie,” said Garza, who started weeping on air. “She was so sweet… she was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. She listened to her mom and dad, she always brushed her teeth, she was creative, she made things for us, she never got in trouble in school.”

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The Texas elementary school mass shooting suspect spent more than 40 minutes slaughtering young students inside as witnesses desperately urged police to charge into the building.

Now a father of one of the dead children is blaming officers at the scene for not acting sooner to stop the alleged gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.

“There was at least 40 lawmen armed to the teeth but didn’t do a darn thing [until] it was far too late,” Jacinto Cazares, the father of 10-year-old victim Jackie Cazares, told ABC News.

A witness who lived across the street from Robb Elementary, where 19 students and two teachers were shot dead Tuesday, said onlookers begged officers outside the school to do something as bullets rang inside the building.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was especially disturbing for Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Brooks Raley.

The small community of about 16,000 people west of San Antonio is the left-hander's hometown, he attended school in the building where the shooting occurred, and his parents and a brother still reside there.

“It’s a pretty small town,” Raley said Wednesday. “News travels fast. My family is still there, my brother lives there, and his wife and daughter. So it hits close to home.”

Raley, 33, was in the Rays’ clubhouse at Tropicana Field less than an hour before a game against the Miami Marlins when he learned 19 children and two adults had been gunned down at his old school.

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 A fourth grader who was killed in the Robb Elementary School mass shooting pleaded with her mother to stay home that morning, according to a report.

Jailah Silgueron wanted to “stay home with momma,” but with two days left to the school year, her mother told her to go, a relative told The Daily Beast.

“Jailah didn’t want to go to school yesterday,” her grandmother Linda Gonzales told the outlet. “That’s what her momma was really upset about last night: ‘If only I had let her stay home.’”

Jailah’s mother, Veronica Luevanos, is one of scores of parents in Uvalde, Texas mourning the death of their child after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the school and allegedly started shooting at “whoever’s in his way.” Overall, 21 people were killed.

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Two victims in Tuesday’s shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, are being treated at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, a defense official said.

“This is a reminder of the extraordinary care the military health system can provide when called upon,” said Seileen Mullen, acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, at a congressional hearing about the military health system.

“Our hearts go out to the victims and their families,” Mullen added.

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