Remembering the victims: A Staten Island artist created a life-size installation entitled '21 Cardinals,' featuring desks, chairs and cardinals memorializing the victims of the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting.
The Uvalde City Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday has been canceled so community members can continue to grieve, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin announced.
"Our focus on Tuesday is on our families who lost loved ones," McLaughlin said in a statement Monday."We begin burying our children tomorrow, the innocent victims of last week’s murder at Robb Elementary School."Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, center, prays with pastor Gabriel Davila and wife, Sylvia, outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 30, 2022.
McLaughlin reiterated that the investigation into the shooting is being conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety, saying that statements made by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Saturday that he was"not told the truth" about the timeline of events during the shooting are not true. "Local law enforcement has not made any public comments about the specifics of the investigation into the incident or mislead anyone," McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin also thanked the U.S. Department of Justice for accepting his request to conduct an independent review of law enforcement’s response to the mass shooting, adding that the families of the victims “deserve answers, and the truth will be told.”
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