Good morning and welcome to our live blog covering Tuesday's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers.
After it emerged that a gunman was locked in a classroom for a full hour before a Swat team broke in and killed him, outrage is mounting over the law enforcement response to the massacre.
Fury is also growing that the National Rifle Association NRA is moving ahead with its annual conference beginning Friday in Houston, less than 300 miles from the scene of the shooting. Donald Trump is among the speakers.
The families of those killed by the 18-year-old gunman are preparing to hold the first funerals.
After the killing of 10 Black people in a Buffalo, New York supermarket earlier this month, Joe Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, will visit Uvalde on Sunday to grieve with the community and talk with civic leaders and first responders.
While we wait for the day to unfold, here is the Guardian s Dani Anguiano in Uvalde on the heavy cloud of grief hanging over the devastated community: