School shooting

Public anger is growing after it emerged that officers waited in the hallway as children trapped with the shooter made desperate 911 calls.

US President Joe Biden is in Uvalde to meet families devastated by the attack.

He will also meet survivors and first responders.

First Lady Jill Biden, herself a teacher, accompanied the president to a memorial at Robb Elementary School. They were seen comforting the school's principal Mandy Gutierrez, beside a carpet of floral tributes for the teachers, and children - all under 10 years old - who lost their lives.

Senator Roland Gutierrez of Texas said he was briefed by state police on the latest fatalities at the deadly shooting in the Robb elementary school in Uvalde, a heavily Latino community about 85 miles west of San Antonio near the Mexico border.

Three people wounded in the attack remained hospitalized in serious condition, the senator said.

The armed 17-year-old was arrested after the shooting, which happened at the Alexis de Tocqueville school in the town of Grasse, about 40 kilometres from the southern city of Nice.

Jacob Hall was hit in a femoral artery and a massive blood loss led to a major brain injury. He died Saturday, Renae Hall wrote on Facebook.

"You are dead to me by God you are my angel and now as I lay here and Watch the Life leave your body it reminds me of how honored I was to have you in my life," she wrote in her post.

A family statement added thanks to doctors and the community. It said Jacob was an example of "pure love."

It was 1:44 p.m. local time.

His grandparents could barely hear the 14-year-old because of his crying, CNN affiliate WYFF reported. So they headed next door, where he lived, to check on him.

But instead of the teen, the grandparents found the body of their son -- his father. Their grandson was nowhere to be found, according to the affiliate.