President Joe Biden, a Democrat who has urged Congress to approve new gun restrictions, will visit Uvalde on Sunday.
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Videos emerged earlier on Thursday showing desperate parents outside the school during the attack, pleading with officers to storm the building, with some fathers having to be restrained. The shooter then barricaded himself inside the fourth-grade classroom of his victims, mostly 9- and 10-year-olds, for an hour before a U.S. Border Patrol tactical team breached the room and fatally shot him, Escalon said.
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