• The development comes weeks after one of the deadliest school shootings in US history.
• The shooting, which killed 19 children and two teachers, reignited a national debate on gun control.
• It also spurred a rare albeit fraught; bipartisan effort to do more to curb gun violence in the country.

Law enforcement officials have ceased sharing new updates on the incident in recent weeks, causing alarm.

According to a US legislator leading the investigation; police in the Texas town of Uvalde have agreed to appear before a committee probing a massacre at a primary school last month; that killed 19 children and two teachers.

Dustin Burrows, a Republican from Texas; expressed his displeasure with Uvalde police; tweeting that the majority of people had fully cooperated with their inquiry “to help determine the facts”; and that he didn’t understand why the city’s police department “would not want the same.”

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The news comes only weeks after one of the country’s bloodiest school shootings.

The killing, which took place less than two weeks after a racist killed ten people in Buffalo, New York; revived a national discussion over gun regulation.

It has also sparked a rare – albeit tumultuous – bipartisan campaign to reduce gun violence in the United States.

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