UVALDE, Texas — The lawyer for the principal of an elementary school in Texas where 21 people were killed in a mass shooting says she has returned to her job after being placed on administrative leave earlier this week.

On Monday, Robb Elementary School principal Mandy Gutierrez's attorney told CNN that his client was on paid leave.

On Thursday, her attorney told ABC News, CNN, and Reuters that she was reinstated.

A reason for her being placed on paid leave was not given, the news outlets reported.

CNN reported that her reinstatement comes a day after she defended herself against a Texas House committee investigation report of the deadly school shooting.

In the report, the news outlets reported that Gutierrez was criticized for failing to fix a lock on the school door the gunman used to enter the school on May 24.

On Wednesday, she called the accusations "unfair and inaccurate," the Texas Tribune reported.

Gutierrez became principal of the elementary school last year.

HOUSTON — The Houston Astros is set to welcome residents from Uvalde on Sunday for Uvalde Strong Day.

The team announced Monday in a press release that 500 residents from Uvalde, Texas, will be brought to Minute Maid Park in 10 busses for “a unique gameday experience."

The release stated that a pregame ceremony and a ceremonial first pitch would also honor Uvalde.

Astros fans will also get the chance to buy Uvalde Strong t-shirts, which the proceeds going to Uvalde Strong efforts, the team said.

According to the release, the winner of the 50/50 raffle will win $10,000, with the rest going to Uvalde Strong initiatives.

The team said that fans who purchase 50/50 raffles over $100 would receive a Uvalde Strong wristband.

"The Astros are committed to the continued healing of the community of Uvalde through the game of baseball," the team said.

This isn't the first time the Astros had shown support to the community that was devastated when a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers inside Robb Elementary School in May.

The Astros and the Astros foundation visited Uvalde in July to embrace the grief-stricken town, MLB.com reported.

UVALDE, Texas —

Slowly, purposefully, they came to see the white crosses.

A substitute teacher on a camping trip. A grandfather taking his afternoon walk. A couple in a pickup truck with their caramel-colored Labrador Retriever in the back. A group of female bikers that rode into town with flowers in hand.

With few words, they stood at the corner of Old Carrizo and Geraldine, gazing somberly at the memorial to the murdered: 19 crosses for the children, two for the teachers at Robb Elementary School. Twenty-one killed in America’s worst school shooting of 2022.

Nearly one year to the day later, the mourners continue to visit a campus where students will never learn again.

“I knew it would be moving,” said Kelly Mitchell, a substitute teacher from San Antonio, who stopped by the school recently while returning home from a camping trip.

"It makes it very real. It's not some faraway thing. It makes it very personal,” Mitchell said.

Bob Estrada, who said a relative died in the shooting, paused at the memorial while walking his grandson. He said he visits the site several times a week. "I just come down here and imagine what happened,” Estrada said. “I always wondered what those kids went through."

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School shootings after Uvalde

Since the shooting at Uvalde, more kids have gone through it, too, because the bullets have not stopped, killing more kids and more teachers at more schools, in Texas and around the nation.

From May 25, 2022 — the day after the Robb Elementary massacre — until April 30, 2023, 25 more schools reported gun violence on campus, according to The Washington Post's school shooting database, killing 13 people and injuring 41.

In all, there have been 105 incidents of gunfire at K-12 schools since the Uvalde school shooting, according to the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.

More than a dozen states have taken action in response in that same time frame.

New gun laws passed after massacre

One month after the Uvalde shooting, in June 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It expanded background checks for gun buyers ages 18 to 21, provided $2 billion for school safety, and will help pass 'red flag' laws to temporarily take guns away from people in crisis.

At least 74 gun control laws have passed in 13 states since the Robb Elementary killings, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, including new bans on assault weapons in California and Washington.

One of the states not on the list: Texas, where a former student used an AR-style rifle to shatter the community of Uvalde.

In the 365 days since the killings, the Republican-controlled state legislature has sent no new laws to the Texas governor restricting the type of firearm that was used to take 21 lives at the school, where Kelly Mitchell, the substitute teacher, recently came to mourn her fellow teachers.

"Every person had to know somebody that was affected by it,” she said.

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Mark Albert is the chief national investigative correspondent for the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit, based in Washington, D.C. Tamika Cody, Reid Bolton and Pingping Yin contributed to this report.

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