Nineteen children also died at Robb Elementary in Uvalde in May, a number that shocked the country. But most children who die in shootings aren’t killed in mass casualty incidents.
The county toll is on track to surpass the count from last year, when 37 young people were shot to death in homicides and accidental shootings — up from 29 victims in 2020, 30 in 2019 and 27 in 2018. The institute did not have data available for prior years.
Nationally, gun deaths have been increasing for years across all age groups, said Kelly Drane, research director at Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. From 2014 to 2020, the number of children killed in gun homicides nearly doubled across the country, Drane said, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For a while, Christina Partida wanted to move away from the northwest Houston apartment she, her husband and kids called home after Hurricane Harvey destroyed their house. The violence — people mugged, cars stolen, homes burglarized — around the neighborhood her husband had grown up in was “eye-opening.”
Robert Butler had just shown up at a birthday party and finished posing for photos with friends, said his mother, Desiree Stewart. Then. Stewart said her son ran and pushed a girl away from the gunfire, saving her life and taking a bullet to the chest.
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