A metal detector beeped, and Pastor Julián Moreno was turned away from his grandson’s school field day in February – until he put his orange pocket knife back in his truck.
At first, he found it aggravating.
“But then as I was walking back, I remembered what happened at Robb and it kind of sunk in,” said Moreno, who lost his great granddaughter, Lexi Rubio, in the shooting in Uvalde, Texas last May. “They were just trying to do a better job.”
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