UVALDE, UNITED STATES (AFP) - Fresh harrowing accounts emerged on Saturday (May 28) of the ordeal faced by victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, fanning public fury over the massacre ahead of a visit Sunday by US President Joe Biden. As residents gathered on...
Though his teacher lay on the floor bleeding, she repeatedly told the students,"Stay calm. Stay where you are. Don't move," Daniel recalled.
Local resident Humberto Renovato, 33, asked those present to hold hands, form a circle around the crosses, and pray.President Joe Biden was due to visit Uvalde on Sunday to again make the case for gun control, as activists set about galvanizing voters on the issue in the run-up to November's midterm election.
Biden's deputy, Vice-President Kamala Harris, issued a similar call on Saturday as she attended the funeral of another mass shooting victim - Ruth Whitfield, who was among the 10 killed when a white supremacist opened fire in a supermarket in Buffalo on May 14. Chances of substantive change there appeared slim, however. Texas has long been one of the most gun-friendly states.The Uvalde shooting was the deadliest school attack since 20 children and six staff were killed at the Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.
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