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Uvalde Shooting horror: Families, community hold makeshift memorial at elementary school
A makeshift memorial for the students, families and staff of Robb Elementary School has formed outside the campus after the shooting.
Family, friends and community members came to pay their respects adorning the campus’ welcome sign with bouquets of roses, sunflowers and balloons, American-Statesman reporter Luz Moreno-Lozano reported.
The last week of classes at Robb Elementary School ended in terror when a gunman opened fire, killing 21 people on Tuesday. Instead of making summer plans, the families of these 19 school children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde are making funeral plans. Their young, innocent lives were ended by an 18-year-old gunman with just two days left in the school year during what is now the deadliest elementary school shooting since Sandy Hook. All of the victims were in the same fourth-grade classroom. Before they were victims, they were children, brothers, sisters, and elementary school students.
Rosa Gonzalez, who visited the campus Wednesday, said she wanted to show support for her community and her friends who lost their children.
“This is so hard to explain,” she said, fighting back tears. “My kids went to school here. My grandkids went to school here. We never thought this would happen here.”