Hundreds of community members as well as Gov. Abbott and Senator Ted Cruz filled the Uvalde Fairplex Arena Wednesday to remember the lives lost in Tuesday’s school shooting
The 10-year-old says she was playing outside when she heard two gunshots.
“Our teacher said they were fireworks and kids were just messing around,” said the fourth-grader. “We didn’t think that. We knew they weren’t fireworks. We wouldn’t go on lockdown for that.”“She was two, three doors down from the class,” said Juan Santos. “But since she took early recess, she was on the other side of the campus.”“I didn’t know who was hurt or dead and we started looking around on Facebook and then I realized that all the people I knew were dead now,” she said.
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