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One day after a gunman took the lives of 19 young children and
two adults in Uvalde, Texas, Robb Elementary School is at the
center of a frenzy.
Members of the close-knit community hoping to pay their respects
to those slain inside the school on Tuesday must work through
several barriers to get close to the building. The surrounding
roads are blocked by barricades and all nearby parking spots are
taken. Throngs of journalists and media cameras have set up in
front of the school. And then there’s the caution tape wrapped
around the perimeter, followed by rows of law enforcement in
large white vehicles investigating the crime scene.
Still, over the past day, dozens of people from Uvalde and
neighboring towns have made their way past the obstacles to lay
flowers on the “Welcome…Bienvenidos” sign perched in front of
Robb Elementary.
“We won’t let these babies be forgotten,” one woman says after
she and her partner lay their bouquet on the sign.
The people of the small town, population of about 16,000, are
expressing their grief in a variety of ways after the third-
deadliest school shooting in U.S. history rocked their
community. They are gathering in churches, the local Starbucks,
the community civic center, and the Uvalde County Fairplex to
mourn together and remember the victims. Some are painting
storefront windows with the phrase “Uvalde Strong.” Families and
friends are embracing each other, or kneeling in front of the
school in prayer.
By about 7 p.m., the brick “Welcome” sign at Robb Elementary was
covered in flowers, candles, and balloons. Thirteen-year-old
Dariana Cervantes came with her father Humberto to leave a
bouquet of red roses at the site at her old elementary school.
“You could have never seen it coming,” she says, her voice
shaky. “These kids just went to school thinking it’s a normal
day, and then they get their lives taken away.”
Some of the Cervantes family’s friends, Dariana says, were among
the panicked parents looking for their missing children on
Tuesday night. “To go with no answers to where the kids are…it
keeps you imagining and asking what happened,” she says.
When news of the shooting broke, Humberto, who has other young
children, says he rushed from work to get to his kids’
elementary school in a different part of town, panicked that
they were in danger. He had forgotten that they were out of town
on a field trip in San Antonio. “We know most of the people who
come to this school,” Humberto says. “We see them at the
festivals, at the park, at the grocery store.” Everyone in the
town, he says, was impacted by the shooting.
It wasn’t just people from Uvalde who felt anguished after the
massacre. On Wednesday afternoon, a group of three friends
gathered at the Town Square to hold up signs reading “Uvalde
Strong,” “Prayers 4 Uvalde,” and “Remember their names.”
“I don’t want to just be on my phone watching everything come to
light,” says Ravenn Vasquez, 21, a graduate of Uvalde High
School holding one of the signs. “[We wanted to] do something so
that people see us and know that we care.” Though Vasquez grew
up going to school in Uvalde, her two friends are from
neighboring towns, Knippa and Concan, both in Uvalde County.
“One way or another, we’re all connected,” Vasquez says, because
the cluster of small towns around Uvalde are all “very, very
intertwined.”
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District held a vigil
on Wednesday evening for members of the community. Press was not
allowed to attend in order to provide more privacy to the
grieving community. The line of cars heading to the vigil
stretched back at least 2.5 miles—about half the length of the
town.
https://time.com/6181718/uvalde-shooting-grieving-community/
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