Rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers were shot dead, the mayor said.

Don McLaughlin said Tuesday at a tense and emotional council meeting with residents asking for answers to the shootings. He did not say when the school would be demolished.

The public outcry escalated after the May bombings, and police were accused of waiting more than an hour to confront the attackers. “I understand that the school will be demolished,” McLaughlin said. “I had this discussion with the director. “You can’t ask the child to go back or ask the teacher to go back to school,” McLaughlin said. Robb Elementary School has approximately 600 students in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades.

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US President Joe Biden has proposed demolishing the school, Senator Roland Gutierrez told local media last month. Robb Elementary School is not the first school to be destroyed in a mass shooting.

In 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, collapsed after 20 students aged 6, 7, and 6. A new school was built there.

A Texas public safety commissioner told Uvalde on Tuesday that police on the scene were enough to deter the shooter three minutes after he entered the building. However, the police waited outside the classroom for an hour for the group to enter.

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Stephen McCraw said it was a “failure” to hear the police response in the state Senate, accusing commanders of prioritising officers’ lives over the lives of children on the ground. The attack on 18-year-old Salvador Ramos sparked a nationwide debate over gun control.

On Tuesday, US senators introduced new legislation to fight mass shootings, which are known to be the most destructive new weapons of this generation.