In May of 2022 Robb Elementary was the site of one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings. The reminders are everywhere residents look.
Kelly Dearmore
The bloodshed in Allen occurred right on the heels of another mass shooting in Texas, when five people, including a child, were murdered in Cleveland by a man with an assault rifle. That shooting happened only weeks after three young students and three adults were murdered in Nashville, Tennessee, inside the Covenant School in late March.
Mireles, who lives in San Antonio, is one of dozens of family members of the kids and teachers who died at Robb Elementary who have become advocates for stricter gun laws.
The St. Henry De Osso Family Project, just north of the downtown square, is housed in a long building with high walls. Some of the children who died at Robb received tutoring in that building. Now, both sides of it bear many of their vivid memorial murals. Ortiz-Acosta says that specific location is “the heart of the whole project.” Other locations, including a clothing store, a financial outlet and a print shop, also bear murals of the fallen.
“Not only are the colors in the murals based on the kids’ favorite colors, but those colors really bring the downtown area to life,” Ortiz-Acosta says. “The colors were important because they needed to pop, because the whole idea of these murals are for the kids to be remembered forever. The murals won’t let us forget.”
State trooper SUVs are usually stationed at a couple of points around the school’s perimeter now. It’s a whiplash-inducing contrast to the pulse provided by the downtown murals. The building is set to be demolished soon, and plans to build a new school and a memorial park are in the works. As it was revealed later, Eva Mireles texted Ruiz, telling him she “had been shot and was dying.” He tried to go back into the school to rescue his wife, but he was removed from the property and disarmed, according to reports. Maggie Mireles says Ruiz still lives in Uvalde, but his life there is, for obvious reasons, completely different now.
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