Dramatic new photos show students fleeing Texas shooting

Children run from a school building and police officers guide them.

Terrified children run from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, during Tuesday’s shooting.

(Pete Luna / Uvalde Leader-News)

By Times Photography Staff

May 27, 2022 8:05 PM PT

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New photos show terrified children running from Robb Elementary School during the shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The photos, released Friday, were taken by Pete Luna, general manager of the Uvalde Leader-News newspaper in the town of 16,000 people.

The images show students being helped out of windows, police officers with guns drawn and the shooter’s truck crashed near the school.

Children are helped out of windows at Robb Elementary.

Police direct children away from the school.

The truck that the school gunman crashed near the campus.

A weapon next to the shooter's crashed truck.

Chaos outside the school.

Police look into a window at Robb Elementary.

Children race from the school.

Police outside Robb Elementary School.

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