President Biden advised a neighborhood lawmaker whereas visiting Uvalde on Sunday that the federal authorities might present sources to raze Robb Elementary Faculty, the place 19 youngsters and two lecturers had been shot and killed earlier this week.
“He mentioned, ‘I’m not going away. I’m going to carry you sources. We’re going to look to raze that college, construct a brand new one,’” state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who represents Uvalde, advised KSAT.
“I can’t let you know what number of little youngsters that I’ve talked to that don’t wish to go into that constructing. They’re simply traumatized. They’re simply destroyed.”
Different websites of mass shootings have been demolished lately.
Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty, the place a gunman shot and killed 26 individuals in 2012, was torn down and changed by a brand new $50 million faculty on the identical property in Newtown, Connecticut.
Faculty officers in Colorado had been contemplating razing Columbine Excessive Faculty in 2019 resulting from a “morbid fascination” surrounding the constructing the place 13 individuals had been murdered in 1999, however they in the end determined to not tear it down.
The congregation at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, which is about 110 miles east of Uvalde, voted final 12 months to tear down the previous church the place a gunman opened fireplace in 2017, killing 26 individuals, in line with KENS.
Biden additionally advised Gutierrez that he’s dedicated to bringing psychological well being sources to the group within the wake of this week’s capturing.
“It is a group that’s going to wish remedy. There may be one psychiatrist in Uvalde, only a few psychological well being therapists. We’re going to alter that. It’s a should,” Gutierrez advised KSAT.
The president visited a memorial outdoors of Robb Elementary Faculty on Sunday earlier than attending mass at Sacred Coronary heart Catholic Church then assembly with victims’ households and first responders.
