Desperation turned to heart-wrenching sorrow for families of grade-schoolers killed after an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in their Texas classroom and began shooting, killing at least 19 children and their two teachers.
By Wednesday morning, many were left with the grim reality of an unimaginable horror as the names of the young victims of Tuesday’s shooting at Robb Elementary School in the southwestern town of Uvalde began to emerge.
Among them were relatives of 10-year-old Eliahna Garcia, who learned late Tuesday that she was among those killed, her aunt, Siria Arizmemdi said.
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