An emotional audition on \u0022American Idol\u0022 by a survivor of a Texas high school shooting prompted tears from the judges.
Trey Louis was one of the students at Santa Fe High School in May 2018 when another student fatally shot 10 people on campus.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
“Lost a lot of friends. Eight students were killed. Two teachers were killed. It’s just really been negative, man. Santa Fe has had a bad rap here since 2018,” said Louis, who was in an art class finishing a project when the gunman started firing in a room next door. Perry began to cry, placing her hands over her face and bowing her head. She then lifted her head and yelled out, “Our country has failed us.”“This is not OK. You should be singing here because you love music,” Perry said.Louis told KTRK-TV in Houston that the song he chose for his audition, “Stone” by Whiskey Myers, was in honor of his friend Chris Stone, who was one of the students killed.
Just before the judges unanimously voted to send Louis to the next round in Hollywood, Perry said, “I hope that you remind people that we have to change because you know what, I’m scared too.”“For myself, for my school, for you,” Louis said..Dimitrios Pagourtzis, then a 17-year-old student, has been charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths.
Pagourtzis, now 22, has been ruled incompetent to stand trial and has been receiving mental health treatment at a state hospital since early December 2019. Earlier in February, a judge ordered that he be held at the hospital for up to another year. Santa Fe is located about 55 kilometres southeast of Houston.
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