Robb Elementary School may be torn down and rebuilt after the mass shooting there last week, Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez told local TV station KSAT 12 on Sunday.
Gutierrez, a Democrat who represents Uvalde, told KSAT 12 that President Joe Biden promised him his support during a visit to a makeshift memorial site outside the school in Uvalde, Texas.
According to Gutierrez, Biden told him: "I'm going to bring you resources. We're going to look to raze that school down and build a new one."
Two teachers and 19 children were killed in a fourth-grade classroom in the school, making it the deadliest mass shooting since the Sandy Hook massacre 10 years ago. The gunman was shot by law enforcement at the scene.
"I can't tell you how many little children that I've talked to that don't want to go back into that building," an emotional Gutierrez told KSAT 12. "They're just traumatized, they're just destroyed."
Students at the school only had two days left before their summer break when the shooting took place. The school's superintendent announced shortly after that the school year had finished early.
Gutierrez did not give any further details on the plans to demolish and rebuild the building but said he was working with the White House to sift through a federal grant process.
His office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
