A growing number of flowers, balloons and candles covered the lawn Thursday outside Robb Elementary School along with 21 handmade white wooden crosses.
A memorial that has sprung up outside the Uvalde school where 21 students and teachers lost their lives to a gunman Tuesday is drawing relatives to the site.– A memorial that has sprung up outside the Uvalde school where 21 students and teachers lost their lives to a gunman Tuesday is drawing relatives to the site.
Each carefully painted cross bears the name of one of the 19 children and two teachers who died in the shooting. The crosses, according to a Department of Public Safety trooper who was on duty all night, are the work of a Uvalde man. The trooper said he watched as the man brought the artwork, which he spent all day creating, to the site late Wednesday night.By mid-morning Thursday, people continued to stream in, carrying more items to add to the memorial.
George Rodriguez arrived with two balloons, one for each of the two relatives he lost to the violence.“ pretty-happy-go-lucky boy. Full of life,” Rodriguez said through tears. “He was my life and I died with him. I wish I could.”Both children were in the same fourth-grade classroom when the 18-year-old gunman stormed in and shot them along with the others.“ was just a little innocent child, as they all were,” Rodriguez said. “I pray he’ll be in heaven and all the children.
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