UVALDE, Texas — On the morning of May 24, Eva Mireles, a mom who loved karaoke, hiking and working out, texted her daughter about a CrossFit backpack she planned to buy.
And that was the last conversation the close mother-daughter duo had.
Ruiz's father, a school district police officer, responded to the scene of the mass shooting. Once her dad called back and told her he was OK, Ruiz said a"huge weight lifted off my chest." She chose not to discuss the law enforcement response at the school, which remains under investigation."My coworker drove me home to Uvalde, about an hour. It felt like the longest drive ever, just waiting and waiting," she said.
In the wake of the massacre, which was carried out with an AR-15-style rifle, Ruiz said she hopes to see stricter gun laws in Texas, calling assault weapons"guns of war." Ruiz is now channeling her energy into helping plan the Remember Their Names festival, set for Oct. 30, to honor the Uvalde victims and survivors.
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