U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks, after paying respects and meeting with victims, family, first responders and law enforcement who were affected by the mass shooting committed by a gunman authorities say was motivated by racism, at Delavan Grider Community Center in Buffalo, NY, U.S. May 17, 2022.
Leah Millis | Reuters
President Joe Biden will deliver a primetime address Tuesday evening, hours after a gunman killed 14 students and one teacher at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Biden is scheduled to speak from the White House at 8:15 p.m. ET. He ordered that the U.S. flag be flown at half staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds.
The president spoke to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and offered “any and all assistance he needs” to respond to the shooting, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said in a tweet.
The elementary school shooting evoked horrific memories of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. It is the second mass shooting to rock the country in 10 days following an attack at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
The suspected shooter was fatally wounded in the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary School, located about 83 miles west of San Antonio, according to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
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