'My daughter's death cannot have been in vain. The deaths of her classmates cannot have been in vain'
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As he prayed at the small cross in her memory, Vincent Salazar was hopeful his daughter Layla's body would soon be returned to her family to prepare for her funeral. The 11-year-old girl, the 'baby of the family' who loved TikTok and denim jackets, was one of the 19 children who diedIf the grief for the loss of a child could possibly be made any more intense, Vincent is one of those parents who wonders whether those lives could have been saved.in not confronting the gunman earlier has undoubtedly added to the pain of families.
"My daughter's death cannot have been in vain. The deaths of her classmates cannot have been in vain," he said."Something needs to change. Something is better than nothing." It is a reflection of the intensity of the public mood in Uvalde that police could no longer evade those questions.
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