KUCHING, June 23: The elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where a teenage gunman killed 19 children and two teachers last month will be demolished.
Citing a report from Reuters, the decision was announced by the city’s mayor at a council meeting on Tuesday, June 21.
The mayor’s announcement came several hours after a senior Texas official said the law enforcement response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School was “an abject failure” in which a commander put the lives of officers over those of the children.
Nonetheless, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin did not give a timeline for when the school would be demolished.
In a separate Texas state Senate hearing into the May 24 shooting, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw said the onsite commander made “terrible decisions” and officers at the scene lacked sufficient training, costing valuable time during which lives may have been saved. -TVS
