We reported earlier that medical centres in Texas are calling for blood donations to help those injured in the shooting. Now funeral homes near Robb Elementary School have reportedly offered to assist all families who lost someone at no cost.

Local outlet KENS5 says Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home, two blocks from the school, will cover the cost of funerals.

"We have fought as a community and we will pull together as one now in our time of need," read a post on the funeral home's Facebook page.

Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary also said it would not charge families, writing: "We are here for the people of Uvalde and our professionals are currently at Robb Elementary assisting law enforcement."

There is a deep sense of frustration and anger among many Americans who have lost relatives and friends in previous school shootings, and are now seeing more deaths unfold.

Fred Guttenberg, the father of 14-year-old Jaime, who died in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, said that politicians who "politicise guns and violence led us to this day".

"They failed our kids again. I'm done. I've had it. How many more times?" he told MSNBC.

"And we're going to sit back and listen to that governor of Texas talk about why he pushed for laws in Texas that made it easier for the guns to be had by those who want to kill. How many more times? I'm speechless. I don't know what to say."

Lauren Hogg, who survived the Parkland shootings, tweeted that she was "heartbroken".

"Do 2nd, 3rd, & 4th graders not have the right to feel safe at school?" wrote Mia Tretta, who survived a 2019 shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, which killed two students and left her shot in the stomach.

"Do they not have the right to live while getting an education? Kids shouldn’t die at the sake of the antiquated 2nd amendment. The pain never stops."

Family members of the victims have been sharing the news on social media and speaking of their grief.

Angel Garza said his daughter, 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, was among those killed.

Sharing a photo of them together, he called her his "little love" and urged others to "hug your family".

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Uvalde residents are expressing their horror and shock after the deadly attack in their community.

"It is just breaking my heart. I did not expect anything like that ever to happen here", said one local woman.

"The one he shot... his grandmother, I know her. That was his grandmother!

"I could not believe it".

The shooter is believed to have shot his grandmother before his attack on Robb Elementary School.

Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey - who was born in Uvalde where this shooting took place - has shared a statement calling for Americans to "look in the mirror, and ask ourselves, 'What is is that we truly value?'"

Medical centres in Texas are calling for local communities to donate blood to help victims of the shooting.

South Texas Blood and Tissue, a large blood bank in San Antonio, has rushed 25 units of donated blood to Uvalde by helicopter.

Now it's asking the public for more donations - with a blood drive planned at Uvalde's Herby Ham Activity Centre today.

In a Facebook post, South Texas Blood and Tissue said it only has 26 units left, and asked for help getting more.

University Health - a large hospital system in San Antonio - is also calling for assistance.

As we've been reporting, 19 young children and two teachers have been killed after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a primary school in Texas.

US media have now named the second teacher killed in the attack as Irma Garcia, who taught at Robb Elementary for 23 years, according to her school profile. She had four children and loved barbecuing with her husband and listening to music.

Her son said a friend in law enforcement who was at the scene saw Garcia shielding her students, NBC reports, external.

The other names of those confirmed dead are:

Fellow teacher: Eva Mireles, who taught fourth graders at the school. She was shot and killed by Salvador Ramos while trying to protect her students, her aunt, Lydia Martinez Delgado, told the New York Times, external.

Children: Xavier Lopez and Amerie Garza, both aged 10, and eight-year-old Uziyah Garcia.

School shootings have become recurring emergencies in the US, with 26 recorded last year, according to EdWeek, an education trade publication.

One of the most deadly was at Sandy Hook school in Conneticut 2012. Twenty children - all under the age of 10 - and six adults were killed.

The Democratic Senator there is Chris Murphy. Speaking on the floor of the US Senate moments after news of the deadly Texas school shooting broke, Murphy accused his colleagues of complacency and begged them to pass gun control legislation.

Watch what he told them above.

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Distraught families have been speaking to the Associated Press about losing their children and loved-ones in the shooting.

Manny Renfro said he was told that his grandson, eight-year-old Uziyah Garcia, was among those killed.

“The sweetest little boy that I’ve ever known,” Renfro told AP. “I’m not just saying that because he was my grandkid.”

Renfro said Uziyah last visited him during spring break.

“We started throwing the football together and I was teaching him pass patterns. Such a fast little boy and he could catch a ball so good,” Renfro said.

Fourth-grade teacher Eva Mireles, 44, was remembered as a loving mother and wife.

“She was adventurous. I would definitely say those wonderful things about her. She is definitely going to be very missed,” said 34-year-old relative Amber Ybarra.

Lisa Garza, 54, mourned the death of her cousin, Xavier Javier Lopez, a keen swimmer.

“He was just a loving 10-year-old little boy, just enjoying life, not knowing that this tragedy was going to happen today,” she said. “He was very bubbly, loved to dance with his brothers, his mom. This has just taken a toll on all of us.”

Adolfo Cruz remained outside the school on Tuesday night, waiting for word about his 10-year-old great-granddaughter, Eliajha Cruz Torres, whose whereabouts remained unknown.

“I hope she is alive,” Cruz said.

The head coach for the NBA's Golden State Warriors refused to talk about basketball during a Tuesday night news conference. Instead, he delivered an emotional speech condemning gun violence in the United States.

Steve Kerr said "basketball questions don't matter" before talking about recent shootings in the US and asking when something would be done.

There has been an outpouring of grief in the city of Uvalde following the news of the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

Vigils have been held around the city, while children from the school were transported to a nearby civic centre.

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Here are fuller remarks from President Biden in the wake of the shooting - delivered at the White House on Tuesday night. He spoke with First Lady Jill Biden, herself a teacher, at his side, demanding: "When in God's name are we going to do what we know in our gut needs to be done?"

Listing a number of sites where such shootings had taken place, Biden said he was "sick and tired of it".

He told the televised briefing:

He finished by saying:

A shocking tragedy, but no sign gun control laws will passpublished at 08:53 British Summer Time 25 May 2022

08:53 BST 25 May 2022

Sarah Smith
Reporting from Uvalde, Texas

This is a profoundly shocking tragedy, yet in America it is also depressingly familiar. The grief and sympathy being expressed around the country is genuine. But no one is genuinely surprised that this could happen.

There have already been 27 school shootings this year alone. Young school children routinely rehearse what to do if a gunman enters their classroom.

It's only 10 days since 10 people were killed in a mass shooting in New York.

Politicians recognise this is a problem almost unique to America, where guns have overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of death for children and teenagers. But it's a problem that politics seem incapable of solving. Deeply entrenched views on gun control are not changed in response to events like the tragedy in Uvalde.

"Why do we keep letting this happen?" asked President Biden. "Why are we willing to live with this carnage?"

But there is no sign that Democrats will get any closer to passing tighter gun control legislation. Some Republicans are already accusing them of using this latest school shooting to cynically further their own political objectives.

Robb Elementary School will join the roll call of school shootings along with Sandy Hook and the Parkland shooting. The killing of innocent schoolchildren has reignited the debate over guns in America, but has not brought it any closer to a resolution.

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President Joe Biden reacted swiftly to the shooting, reflecting on how many mass shootings there have been in the US since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 when he was vice-president.

"Don't tell me we can't have an impact on this carnage," he said.

We're restarting our live coverage after 19 young children and two adults were killed in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas on Tuesday.

Here's a brief re-cap of what we know so far:

• The gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School - which teaches children aged seven to 10 - in the city of Uvalde before he was killed by law enforcement, officials said
• The 18-year-old suspect had a handgun, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and high-capacity magazines, investigators say
• The teenager is suspected of shooting his grandmother before the rampage
• Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the shooter, who he named as Salvador Ramos, abandoned a vehicle before entering the school to "horrifically, incomprehensibly" open fire