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For: EFE Updated 25 May 2022 , 20: 35 pm EDT
A young student was arrested this Wednesday on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, for going to his institute with two rifles in his vehicle, reported the Richardson Police Department.
The arrest occurred one day after a young man shot and killed 19 children and two teachers in an elementary school in the town of Uvalde, also in the state of Texas, one of the deadliest shootings in an educational center in the United States.
Richardson police received the 10.55 local time a call alerting that a young man was walking with a rifle towards the Berkner Institute, so several agents went to the scene.
The young man was located inside the institute but he was unarmed, the police explained. lime in a statement.
However, in his vehicle, parked near the institute, they found a AK rifle-47 and an AR-15, for which the student was arrested for the state felony of carrying a weapon in a school zone .
On Tuesday afternoon, a young man from 18 years old armed with an automatic rifle killed 19 children and two teachers in a primary school in the Texas town of Uvalde , before being shot dead by the Police.
It is the second mass murder in the country in less than two weeks; last 14 May, a white supremacist murdered to ten people, most of them African-Americans, in a supermarket in the town of Buffalo, in New York.
Numerous politicians of the Democratic Party and civil leaders They have called for greater controls on the purchase of weapons in the country, while the Republican authorities in Texas have focused on mental health problems that, in their opinion, are at the root of the event.
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