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Uvalde, Texas – In a town in southern Texas with about 15,000 people, banners and restaurant signs say “Uvalde is strong” and “Pray for Uvalde.”
A month ago, on May 24, a shooter shot dead 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Yuvarde.
The monument in the town square grows day by day with a constant stream of flowers, stuffed animals and people dropping cards.
One of the victims’ father says he spends his time in his daughter’s bedroom every day talking to her.
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“I talk to her as she’s still there, and that helps. That’s really so,” said Jacklin Casares’ father, or as most people know her, “Jackie. Javier Casares said. “I say good morning and good night, that is, in my heart she is still there.”
9-year-old Jackie was a student at Rob Elementary.
She was in class the day the shooter shot the school.
June 10th would have been Jackie’s 10th birthday.
“A smart girl. She’s fine. She’s a little better,” said Javier Casares. “If I can help someone, she will carry a shirt on her back.”
Jackie also loved to sing and dance, and she had big dreams for her future.
“Man, you know, she loved animals. She wanted to be a veterinarian,” said Casares. “And one of her dreams was to go to Paris, so that’s what we want to do. In her spirit, in honor of her.”
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It’s a difficult road from now on.
“We go back and look at the photos and videos, which makes us happy,” added Casares. “Then you may get a small punch in your chest. You have to cry.”
But Casares says he and his family are fighting for healing every day.
“If she had cancer or something and knew she might one day pass by, that wouldn’t be the case, but this was the way she was really taken away from us. That’s another story. And it hurts more, “Cazares said. “But we are strong and trying to get over it. And this will be very difficult, and we can’t say we’re going to hold our breath. We can’t. But Our baby is gone. “”
The family liked to paint the rocks together and hide them like a scavenger hunt.
They continue to keep their traditions, but now leave rocks in Jackie’s graveyard.
Kazareth’s other daughter, Jazzmin, was an up-and-coming senior in high school and began to talk more publicly about the incident.
She spoke at a city council meeting on Tuesday night, and the mayor and council rejected Pete Aledondo’s vacation request.
Aledondo was in charge of the school on May 24th. He was elected to the city council within three weeks of the shooting and was put on administrative leave by the school district police chief on Wednesday night.
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At a council meeting, Jazzmin Casares said of Aledondo:
She pointed out that Aledondo did not attend the meeting.
“But you chose this job because you knew you could be in the fire line. These kids didn’t choose to be in the fire line,” said Jazzmin Casares. rice field. “Remember my face, because we will attend all city councils until something changes.”
Donna Torres, who has lived in Yuvarde for 53 years, also attended the meeting.
She and other groups benefit from and prepare meals for their families.
“It still affects us. They are babies. They are babies of Yuvarde,” Torres said.
Kim Hammond knows someone who moved to Yuvarde nine months ago and lost his child in a shooting.
“They failed by everyone. Everyone. Not only in this community, but also in this state, but in this country. They failed,” Hammond said.
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She suggests that parents go to their child’s school and check the doors and locks themselves.
One mother came up with her idea for her seven-year-old daughter Angelina.
“She asked me if it happened in our school. I told her,” You are playing dead, and if you have no blood, you wear it. “Sandra Villanueva said.
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She says she taught her daughter how to take a slow breath and look dead.
They drove 45 minutes from Cariso Springs, Texas to see the monument and dropped off the stuffed cows and rabbits.
“We must honor them and show them that we care about them,” Angelina said.