'Javier was just a young man full of life...He didn't deserve to die in a tragedy like this,' said Juan Martinez, superintendent of the Clint Independent School District outside El Paso.
Horizon High School Holds Sunset Memorial for Teenager Killed In El Paso Shooting: He 'Was Just a Young Man Full of Life'Hundreds of people crowded into the bleachers and onto the football field at Horizon High School in El Paso on Monday to pay their respects to Javier Rodriguez, a 15-year-old student who had just begun his sophomore year when he was killed in Saturday's shooting attack.
The moment was followed with the release of 21 more doves, each marking one of the other 21 lives lost in Saturday's mass shooting. Lizarde was among at least two dozen others injured and had to be hospitalized after he suffered a gunshot wound to the foot., his nephew had been just one week into his sophomore year at Horizon High School, where he played on the soccer team.
Noting that Javier's uncle was also among those wounded in the attack, O'Rourke stressed that"this violence, this hatred will not define this community, nor will it define the Rodriguez family."
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