in mourning. vigils are under way and families are making funeral arrangements. a makeshift memorial with flowers and balloons is growing outside robb elementary school. u.s. president joe biden will travel to texas soon to visit the families of the victims. we must ask when in god s name will we do what needs to be done to if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of carnage that goes on in this country? to state the obvious like a lot of other people here i m sick and tired. i m just sick and tired of what s going on and continues to go on. and former friend says the gunman, salvador ramos, had a history of fighting as seen here in a video obtained by cnn. investigators say he was inside the school for 40 minutes to an hour barricaded inside two adjoining classrooms before he was shot and killed by a border patrol agent. more now on the investigation from cnn s ed lavandera. i m going to shoot an elementary school. reporter: that was one of the chill
In the wake of the Uvalde elementary school shooting, Texas lawmakers quietly passed a sweeping mandate requiring schools to deploy armed security personnel on every campus.
New details of the police response were among astonishing revelations as well as failures by Robb Elementary officials, teachers and Salvador Ramos relatives.
Families, friends and locals walked together silently from Robb Elementary to the town square in 100F heat Sunday to honor the 19 children and two teachers shot dead at the school.