Unimaginable loss: A look at the 19 children and two teachers who were killed in the Uvalde, Texas, shooting

The scale of the loss is almost unimaginable: 21 people — most of them children — senselessly shot to death by an 18-year-old gunman in a small Texas elementary school.

As the investigation continues into the tragic Uvalde school shooting, the names of those who were killed are starting to come out, as family members grieve and seek to celebrate their lives. Nineteen of the dead are fourth-graders, along with two teachers.

The Statesman will continue to update this story with more information. Here's a look at the lives that were taken in the shooting:

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This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Victims of the Uvalde Texas school shooting remembered