President Biden suggests razing Texas elementary college the place 21 individuals were killed, state senator says - manhattan submit

President Biden instructed a local lawmaker whereas touring Uvalde on Sunday that the federal government may additionally deliver supplies to raze Robb basic school, where 19 babies and two academics had been shot and killed earlier this week. 

"He talked about, 'I'm now not going away. I'm going to deliver you materials. We're going to appear to raze that faculty, construct a new one,'" state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who represents Uvalde, informed KSAT. 

"i will be able to't tell you what number of little toddlers that I've talked to that don't wish to go into that building. They're simply traumatized. They're just destroyed." 

different sites of mass shootings had been demolished in contemporary years. 

Sandy Hook fundamental college, where a gunman shot and killed 26 people in 2012, changed into torn down and replaced with the aid of a brand new $50 million college on the equal property in Newtown, Connecticut. 

school officers in Colorado have been seeing that razing Columbine high faculty in 2019 because of a "morbid fascination" surrounding the building where 13 people have been murdered in 1999, however they sooner or later determined now not to tear it down. 

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited a memorial at Robb fundamental school on Sunday. Evan Vucci/AP

The congregation originally Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, which is ready one hundred ten miles east of Uvalde, voted last year to tear down the old church the place a gunman opened fire in 2017, killing 26 individuals, in line with KENS. 

Biden additionally advised Gutierrez that he's committed to bringing intellectual health materials to the neighborhood within the wake of this week's capturing. 

U.S. president Joe Biden and First woman Jill Biden consult with and lay a flower bouquet at a go memorial in entrance of Robb basic faculty, in Uvalde, Texas. ZUMAPRESS.com

"here is a neighborhood that is going to need therapy. there is one psychiatrist in Uvalde, only a few intellectual fitness therapists. We're going to change that. it is a have to," Gutierrez instructed KSAT. 

The president visited a memorial backyard of Robb basic college on Sunday before attending mass at Sacred coronary heart Catholic Church then assembly with victims' households and first responders.