'Senseless Act': San Mateo Co. Superintendent On Texas School Shooting

SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — San Mateo County Superintendent Nancy Magee called the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers “another unthinkable tragedy” in a letter to the community on Wednesday.

Magee wrote that the superintendent's office will “listen and learn with all of you” and share more later about how San Mateo County schools “work every day to help our students and keep our schools safe.”

“There is little, if anything, more horrific, more senseless, and more heart-breaking than this news,” Magee said. “For now, the investigators will do their work, and we will slowly learn more details about the beautiful children who will laugh no more and the dedicated teacher who has taught her last class. We will read about the unimaginable grief these families and their community will endure. We will try to help our children – and ourselves – make sense of a senseless act, and we will hurt.”

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The gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers barricaded himself inside a classroom and opened fire, a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson said in an appearance on NBC's "The Today Show" on Wednesday morning. The children and teachers who were killed were all in the same classroom.

A vigil is planned Wednesday evening in Foster City.