Bo Jackson made a plea Tuesday night to stop the “nonsense” after a Texas school shooting left 18 children and three adults dead.
The former Auburn Heisman Trophy winner took to Twitter to express his frustration and sadness at the loss of life after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
“America,” he tweeted, “Let’s please stop all the nonsense. Please pray for all victims. If you hear something, say something. We aren’t supposed to bury our children. I’m praying for all of the families around the country who have lost loved ones to senseless shootings. This cannot continue.”
The massacre was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago.
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The attack also came just 10 days after a deadly, racist rampage at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket that added to a yearslong series of mass killings at churches, schools and stores. And the prospects for any reform of the nation’s gun regulations seemed as dim as in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook deaths.
Officials did not immediately reveal a motive, but the governor identified the assailant as Salvador Ramos and said he was a resident of the community about 85 miles west of San Antonio.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.