Texas school shooting: Suspect's grandmother upgraded to good condition
Twenty-one were killed and 17 were injured in last week's mass shooting.
A small town in rural Texas was left reeling after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school, killing 19 children.
Two teachers were also killed in the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, according to authorities.
The alleged gunman -- identified by authorities as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School -- was killed by law enforcement at the scene.
The suspect allegedly shot and injured his grandmother before opening fire at the school, officials said.
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Grandmother upgraded to good condition
The gunman's grandmother, who was shot by the suspect just before the school shooting, has been upgraded to good condition, University Health said Tuesday.
Small group of bipartisan senators to speak Tuesday on gun reform
Even though Congress is on recess, a small group of bipartisan senators will meet by Zoom Tuesday afternoon to speak about gun control, multiple sources told ABC News.
The meeting is expected to include Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas; Sen. Tom Tillis, R-N.C.; and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
The meeting is not expected to include every senator who is part of the bipartisan talks. Discussion with the larger group is expected later this week.
-ABC News' Rachel Scott and Allie Pecorin
Biden says he'll meet with Congress on gun reform
President Joe Biden said to reporters Tuesday: "I will meet with the Congress on guns." Biden didn’t provide more details or say when the meeting would happen.
Biden addressed his visit to Uvalde, saying, "I was down in Texas and people sat in a room, about 250 of them in a large room with me for almost four hours, nobody left ... until I spoke to every single person in that room. Every single person. They waited to the very end."
-ABC News' Ben Gittleson
Uvalde city council meeting canceled, mayor says
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."
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.”
-ABC News' Jenna Harrison
Chaos, confusion and the decision to enter school: Sources
When federal agents from Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations arrived at Robb Elementary School Tuesday, they immediately encountered a scene of confusion and chaos, according to multiple law enforcement officials briefed on the attack.
Some arrived with heavy equipment, others with whatever they could carry as they ran to the scene on foot.
Initially, these agents, multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News, tried to discern who was doing what, where was shooter who was engaging law enforcement and how were children were being evacuated.
Once the tactical team assembled with enough gear, they became aware of an order not to enter the classroom because they were told the suspect had barricaded himself, the sources told ABC News.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has said the incident commander wrongly believed the shooting had stopped.
Eventually, the special agent-in-charge of Homeland Security Investigations gave the instruction to all federal agents under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security that they were free to use their best judgment and to do what they felt was best, the sources said.
The federal agents were unsure whether any children could be saved at that point, but they were interested in evacuating the wounded. Some agents brought children in other classrooms out through windows.
The tactical team went in at 12:50 p.m. CDT and fatally shot the suspect, 77 minutes after the shooting started, officials said.
The suspect was dead at the scene, the sources said. He was found with more than a dozen bullet wounds.
