Vigil, butterfly release among events to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Uvalde school shooting
The 19 fourth-graders and two lecturers killed at an elementary faculty in Uvalde, Texas, are being remembered because the second anniversary of the one of many deadliest faculty shootings in U.S. historical past is marked.
“They should still be with us — playing sports, creating art, dancing, laughing, learning, teaching, and making new memories with their families and friends,” Vice President Kamala Harris stated in an announcement. “Today, we are remembering their stories, standing with their loved ones, and thinking of their community.”
Community members are set to collect Friday night at a vigil to recollect these killed on May 24, 2022, when a teenage gunman burst into lecture rooms at Robb Elementary School and commenced capturing. Other occasions have included a bell ringing and butterfly launch at an area church.
Earlier this week, the households of 19 of the victims filed a $500 million federal lawsuit in opposition to practically 100 state law enforcement officials who have been a part of the botched regulation enforcement response to the capturing. The households stated additionally they agreed to a $2 million settlement with town, beneath which metropolis leaders promised larger requirements and higher coaching for native police.
The federal lawsuit is the most recent of a number of looking for accountability for the regulation enforcement response. More than 370 federal, state and native officers converged on the scene, however they waited greater than 70 minutes earlier than confronting the shooter.
Terrified college students contained in the classroom referred to as 911 as agonized mother and father begged officers — a few of whom may hear photographs being fired whereas they stood in a hallway — to go in. A tactical group of officers finally went into the classroom and killed the shooter.
Javier Cazares, the daddy of slain 9-year-old Jackie Cazares, stated throughout a news convention saying the lawsuit and settlement on Wednesday: “It’s been an unbearable two years. … No amount of money is worth the lives of our children. Justice and accountability has always been my main concern.”
It is the primary lawsuit to be filed after a 600-page Justice Department report was launched in January that catalogued “cascading failures” in coaching, communication, management and expertise issues that day.
