Uvalde residents gather Wednesday at the Uvalde County Fairplex to pray after 19 children and two adults were killed during a school shooting the day before., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Just southwest of downtown Uvalde, around 1,000 community members filed into the multipurpose stadium. It’s been used for county rodeos, monster truck rallies and gun shows. On Wednesday night, attendees bowed their heads to pray. “I want you to know that we love you,” said Tony Gruben, a pastor at Uvalde’s Baptist Temple Church, told those present. “The ministers of this community, people of this community, we love each other.”In crowded bleachers packed with young children and families, community members bowed their heads, outstretched their arms and asked for healing.
Maricela Sanchez, 33, had dinner with a friend at the food trucks that had set up outside the Fairplex. Their young children played around them as they sat and spoke at a picnic table, processing the trauma to the community.“We were all strong for El Paso,” said Sanchez, a mother of three children who attended the vigil, referring to the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart in 2019. “But now that we’re going through it, we’re really not that strong right now. We’re trying to be.
Vote republicans get your children killed. Oh too soon?
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