Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas – where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers – will be demolished, the city’s mayor has said.
Don McLaughlin made the claim on Tuesday at a tense and emotional council meeting with residents demanding answers over the shooting.
However, he did not say when exactly the school would be demolished.
“My understanding and I had this discussion with the superintendent is that school will be demolished. You can never ask a child to go back or teacher to go back in that school ever,” McLaughlin said.
Robb Elementary has nearly 600 students in the second, third and fourth grades.
Robb Elementary will not be the first school to be demolished after a mass shooting.
The attack by an 18-year-old identified as Salvador Ramos has led to renewed national debate about gun regulations.
U.S Senators on Tuesday advanced new legislation to address mass shootings in what has been called the most significant new gun controls in a generation.
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