“He hurt himself. He hurt his people.” Uvalde residents are now facing incalculable grief after a gunman shot and killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in the middle of one of the last school days before summer break.
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’ cross. A baseball was perched on its left branch. A snack bag of Flipz white fudge-covered pretzels sat on top. The town’s surrounding farms produce onions, melons and more, an industry born by the many streams and rivers that crisscross Uvalde County. It’s onion planting season now, which is why the air smells a bit pungent and sour along the roads outside of town, residents said.
Now, the unfathomable loss and immeasurable grief of so many families feels like an affront to a generations-long sense of familiarity and security, residents said. In the 1800s on the Western frontier, skirmishes between the army, settlers and indigenous people were common as white colonizers sought to take the land for farming and ranching. Eventually, a railroad brought more settlers, and more colonization.
There's a strong conservative bent among many residents in Uvalde. In the GOP gubernatorial primary in March, Uvalde’s fourth-term mayor Don McLaughlin endorsed Don Huffines, a candidate who ran to the right of Republican Gov.Residents boast about the town’s family values and faith. There are several churches, and most people are religious, residents said. Most people living in Uvalde also own firearms, residents say. Davis carries a .22-caliber revolver when she leaves the house.
In the neighborhoods of Uvalde this week, cats lounged on sidewalks, dogs yelped behind fences at passersby, and roosters crowed at all hours of the day. Grandmothers took their young children for walks and mom-and-pop drive-thrus served up tacos and shaved ice.in black long chairs, each nursing a cold glass bottle of Bud Light. Alejandro Rodriguez said he grew up with the gunman’s grandfather, and knew his grandmother well. When they were younger, he said, they went to the same parties.
Around the time they graduated UCISD, tensions between white school leaders and Latino students were running high. On April 14, 1970,in protest of the school district’s refusal to renew a contract for a Latino teacher and the racist treatment of Mexican American students.
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