Mourners lay flowers at Robb Elementary to honor Texas school shooting victims

TEXAS, UNITED STATES - MAY 26: After the mass shooting in the US state of Texas, mourners laid flowers for a makeshift memorial outside Robb Elementary School on Thursday, May 26. On Wednesday, all 21 victims who died in a brutal school shooting in Uvalde, Texas were murdered in the same classroom. The gunman killed 19 children and two adults during his rampage and then proceeded to barricade himself inside a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School, Texas Department for Public Safety spokesman Chris Olivarez told CNN. The shooter, whom authorities identified as Salvador Romas, 18, is believed to have been shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent in an exchange of gunfire. Before the carnage, the shooter wounded his grandmother. Following the shooting, President Joe Biden ordered the US flag flown at half-staff at the White House and all public buildings, military posts and naval stations nationwide. Biden implored legislators to enact new gun control laws.(Footage by Yasin Ozturk /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)