Robb Elementary School, where 19 students and two teachers were shot dead, is to be demolished.
Last month, Salvador Ramos, who dropped out of high school, committed murder at a school in Uvalde, southwest Texas.
And so devastated is the small community united by the tragedy that the decision has now been made to close the school and destroy it.
At a press conference at Uvalde City Council, in response to a question, Mayor Don McLaughlin confirmed the demolition. But he added that there was still no exact timeline for it to happen.
Image: Uvalde City Council Board. Image: Ciutat d’Uvalde / Facebook
The news comes just hours after it was revealed that there were enough armed police to stop Ramos three minutes after he entered the school.
Image: The school scene after the shooting
Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Homeland Security, called the response an “abject failure” with “terrible decisions” made by the commander on site.
He reiterated his earlier statement that as many as 19 officers had waited more than an hour in a hallway outside the classrooms before a Special Border Force team entered and killed the gunman.
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Nineteen fourth-graders (aged 11 and 12) and two teachers were killed in the May 24 attack.
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was demolished after a gunman’s December 2012 bombing killed 26 people: 20 children between the ages of six and seven and six adult staff members. .