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Gov. Greg Abbott did not disclose the name of the deputy sheriff or the official’s daughter.

The victims of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde include 19 children and two teachers trying to protect pupils, relatives told news outlets.

Mourners in Uvalde, San Antonio and Austin gathered to mourn the 19 students and two teachers killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

"I’m going to shoot an elementary school," the gunman wrote minutes before the Robb Elementary School massacare, officials said.

In the aftermath of the deadliest U.S. school shooting in a decade, there were conflicting narratives and lingering questions, including why the gunman attacked Robb Elementary.

Even security plans that appear to be up to the latest research-based standards may have gaps and fall short of preventing the worst-case scenario, experts said.

Authorities say the suspect posted that he was going to shoot his grandmother on Tuesday morning, and later said that he was going to shoot an elementary school. He went into the school with a backpack and AR-15 rifle, entered a classroom, locked the door and fired. Lester Holt reports from Uvalde on what we know about the heinous crime, and speaks to families who have children that attend Robb Elementary. A fourth grader recounts what it was like to hear the shooting from her classroom.

Duggar was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison after a federal investigation found he downloaded the images on his work computer in 2019.

Some relief for the millions of families that have been searching for baby formula as Abbott says their plant will start producing formula again on June 4. Three manufacturing executives were questioned on Capitol Hill by the House Oversight Committee over contamination concerns after their plant was closed earlier in the year after four babies got sick and two died. The company has denied that its formula is linked to the illnesses. 

"Our hearts are broken," Uvalde, Texas Mayor Don McLaughlin tells Lester Holt in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. He says the community is strong and will come together after this tragedy.

At the end of our broadcast, we try to find the words of compassion, to somehow bring sense to the senseless. After the massacre at Robb Elementary School, “we simply have no words,” Lester Holt says. “There is only pain.”