Texas pupils’ lives shattered by shooting days before holiday

People become emotional at the City of Uvalde Town Square during a prayer vigil in the wake of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. AFPPIX: The children at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, were two days away from their summer break when Tuesday’s massacre unfolded.

But at 11:43am, a note was posted on the Facebook feed: “Please know at this time Robb Elementary is under a lockdown status due to gunshots in the area. The pupils and staff are safe in the building,” it read. School administrators asked parents to stay away. The school serves about 570 children in second through fourth grades, nearly 90% of them Hispanic.

Messages poured in from around the world, offering prayers and expressing outrage at yet another US mass shooting.

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