Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

The Duchess made a surprise visit to the town of Uvalde after Tuesday's mass shooting which left 19 children and two teachers dead.

Ramos crashed his pickup truck outside the school at 11:28 am on Tuesday, fired several shots at two bystanders across the street and walked into an unlocked door of the school at 11:40 am, Victor Escalon, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said on Thursday. The Duchess' visit came as authorities revealed on Thursday that the gunman, Salvador Ramos, 18, was able to enter the school without any confrontation, contradicting earlier reports that a police officer engaged him outside the building. The Duchess of Sussex on Thursday made a surprise visit to the Texas town of Uvalde to pay her respects to the victims of the mass shooting at an elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

The Duchess of Sussex left white flowers for the 21 victims killed in Tuesday's mass shooting an an elementary school.

Was he crying? Was he scared? He was my everything,” Garcia said. “He was my world. Now, instead of planning his vacation with his son, Garcia is waiting for the boy’s body to be released. He didn’t say goodbye without saying “I love you,” and wished his dad a good day at work in the mornings.

The Duchess of Sussex placed flowers at a makeshift memorial outside the courthouse in Uvalde.

They now live in California with their two children. She also walked around the memorial, looking at the white crosses bearing the names of the victims of Tuesday's carnage. Meghan Markle, the wife of Britain's Prince Harry, on Thursday made an unannounced visit to the Texas town of Uvalde to pay her respects to the victims of a shooting at an elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

The Duchess of Sussex placed a bouquet of white roses tied with purple ribbon at a cross for one of the 21 victims. | ITV National News.

The Duchess of Sussex has visited a memorial for the victims of the primary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. All of the victims in the primary school shooting were in one classroom, according to officials, the gunman barricaded himself inside "shooting anyone" in the room, they said. Duchess of Sussex visits memorial for victims of Texas school shooting

MEGHAN Markle has visited the Texan town of Uvalde to pay tribute to the 19 children and two teachers killed at an elementary school earlier this week.

When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?" Mr Olivarez said: “The suspect made entry into the school and as soon as he made entry into the school he started shooting children, teachers, whoever’s in his way." [VOTE] Royal Family 'brace' for Sussex docuseries 'Have to deliver headlines' [INSIGHT] The Duchess's visit comes as the husband of one of the teachers killed in the shooting dies of a heart attack. Authorities say Ramos first shot his grandmother in the face before taking the family's vehicle to the school grounds. The 18-year-old gunman was shot and killed by police after carrying out one of the most deadly school shooting sprees in recent US history.

The Duchess of Sussex traveled to Texas in a "personal capacity as a mother" to offer her condolences and support to the Uvalde community.

"She was just really sweet," another volunteer, Georjean Burnell, added. She just was carrying on a conversation like her and I knew each other for years," volunteer Gloria Contreras told BuzzFeed News. "We were just talking about, you know, the situation and what happened what we were doing here. Meghan Markle traveled to Uvalde, Texas to pay tribute to the victims of the Uvalde school shooting in person.

Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, places flowers as she mourns at a makeshift memorial outside Uvalde County Courthouse in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26, ...

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Meghan places a bouquet of white roses tied with a purple ribbon at a row of crosses put up in memory of the victims in Uvalde.

Meghan placed a bouquet of white roses tied with a purple ribbon at a row of crosses put up in memory of the victims in Uvalde. Meghan places a bouquet of white roses tied with a purple ribbon at a row of crosses put up in memory of the victims in Uvalde. The Duchess of Sussex has laid flowers at the site of a school shooting in Texas in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.

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Ramos was killed when scores of police officers and a special team of Border Patrol Agents finally breached the classroom. Meghan’s trip to Texas comes as her estranged father, Thomas Markle, 77, recuperates in a San Diego-area hospital from a reported stroke. Dressed casually in jeans, sneakers and a baseball cap, she walked around looking at the memorials set up for the victims. The couple left flowers outside New Zealand House in London along with a note on which Meghan wrote: “Our deepest condolences. All those killed were in the same classroom, Olivarez said. On Tuesday morning,18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who also lived in Uvalde, shot and injured his 66-year-old grandmother then jumped into her pickup truck and headed over to Robb Elementary School, the New York Times reported.

Meghan Markle has made a surprise appearance at a Texas school shooting memorial, where she was seen laying flowers.

Thomas Markle Sr, 77, was struck by a health emergency in Mexico and had to be taken across the border to San Diego in an ambulance while using an oxygen mask. A spokesperson for the Duchess told Peoplethat Meghan took the trip in a “personal capacity as a mother, to offer condolences and support in person to a community experiencing unimaginable grief”. The Duchess was dressed casually in blue jeans, white sneakers, a grey T-shirt, and a cap.

Duchess Meghan visited a memorial site Thursday to pay tribute to the 21 lives lost during a shooting at a Texas elementary school.

"Just last week a targeted mass shooting at a market in Buffalo and now a school shooting in Uvalde," the singer continued. Estrada said the grandmother was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition, and Abbott later confirmed the woman had died. What small sacrifices can we individually take today, to pressure a healthier and safer nation, state, and neighborhood tomorrow?' We cannot exhale once again, make excuses, and accept these tragic realities as the status quo." The actor continued: "The true call to action is now for every American to take a longer and deeper look in the mirror, and ask ourselves, 'What is it that we truly value? Meghan was pictured at the memorial site Thursday looking pensively at a somber line of headstones. Gov. Greg Abbott said one of the two was a teacher.