A nighttime storm brewed in the distance Tuesday while journalists and law enforcement stood and watched a stream of Uvalde residents file into the Willie De Leon Civic Center, which had become a makeshift notification center for families.

At about 10 p.m., there was an unmistakable sound — a wailing mother. The crowd grew quiet and listened, as the storm got closer.

One woman who didn’t want to be identified says the laid-back town where everyone knows everyone will never be the same.

“This is a nightmare. This doesn’t happen in Uvalde. This is where you go to sleep with your doors open,” says the woman who grew up within blocks of Robb Elementary School. “This is going to be a life-changing experience for everybody.”

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Around that time, Sgt. Erick Estrada of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN’s Don Lemon that the death toll hadincreased to 19 childrenand two adults. Initially, Texas Gov. Greg Abbottannounced that 14 studentsand their teacher were killed.

Families hug outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center in Uvalde, Texas.ALLISON DINNER/getty

Families hug outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center where grief counseling will be offered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. - A teenage gunman killed 18 young children in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, in the deadliest US school shooting in years. The attack in Uvalde, Texas – a small community about an hour from the Mexican border – is the latest in a spree of deadly shootings in America, where horror at the cycle of gun violence has failed to spur action to end it. (Photo by allison dinner / AFP) (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

All the fatalities took place inside one classroom, authorities said.

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A woman cries and hugs a young girl while on the phone outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center where grief counseling will be offered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. - A teenage gunman killed 18 young children in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, in the deadliest US school shooting in years. The attack in Uvalde, Texas – a small community about an hour from the Mexican border – is the latest in a spree of deadly shootings in America, where horror at the cycle of gun violence has failed to spur action to end it. (Photo by allison dinner / AFP) (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Hours after the massacre, PresidentJoe Bidenaddressed the nation in anearly eight-minute speech, saying in part, “I had hoped when I became president I would not have to do this again, another massacre in Uvalde, Texas. An elementary school. Beautiful, innocent second, third, and fourth graders. How many scores of little children who witnessed what happened, see their friends die, as if they’re in a battlefield for God’s sake.”

A teacher who was killed in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School has been identified.

She was a fourth grade teacher who loved running and hiking, according to herteacher bio.

“I have a supportive, fun, and loving family, which includes a UCISD officer (Ruiz), college graduate daughter (Adalynn), and 3 furry friends (Callie, Kane,& Koda),” Mireles wrote in her bio.

source: people.com