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Grief at the massacre of 19 small children at an elementary school in Texas spilled into confrontation Wednesday, as angry questions mounted over gun control -- and whether this latest tragedy could have been prevented. The tight-knit Latino community of Uvalde on Tuesday became the site of America's worst school…

Community of 16,000 deeply shaken after gunman killed 19 children at the Robb Elementary School.

A father whose fourth-grade daughter was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school and raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.

Onlookers say police were "unprepared" for the attack, amid reports it took up to an hour for police to enter the school and shoot the attacker.

Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas primary school to stop killer who'd bought guns just days after his 18th birthday

UVALDE, Texas — A gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history posted his intentions online before barricading himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, where all the fatalities and injuries occurred, state and federal officials said…

‘One deputy sheriff lost a daughter in that school,’ says Texas governor Greg Abbott

The small community of Uvalde, Texas is grieving one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

Homeroom teachers were being hailed as heroes Wednesday, a day after a teenage gunman stormed a Texas elementary school, barricaded himself inside a classroom and callously murdered 19 students and two of their instructors.