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People take communion during services at Sacred Heart Church in Uvalde, Texas, Sunday, May 29, 2022.UVALDE — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, visited Uvalde on Sunday to meet with families who were affected by Tuesday’s school shooting that left 21 dead.
Mother and daughter Alejandra Salas, 55, and Mireya Salas, 25, stood among the onlookers. They’d come to see Biden and Gov. Greg Abbott, who joined the president at the elementary school alongside U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales and state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who both represent Uvalde, and Don McLaughlin, the town's mayor.Alejandra’s granddaughter, Adelina, was inside Robb Elementary when a gunman wielding an AR-15-style rifle burst into a classroom late Tuesday morning.
The president then headed to Sacred Heart, where roughly 600 people attended mass. Biden didn’t deliver remarks, instead sitting in the front row as Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller led the servicesThe archbishop invited young attendees to sit at the front of the church, where he told them that Jesus prepared a place in heaven for the 19 children who died on Tuesday. “Our response must be one of hope and healing,” he said.
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