UVALDE, Texas—Athena Pedraza dropped off a homemade meal at her friend’s house before driving to a community vigil at Uvalde’s rodeo arena on May 25.
Her friend’s son was one of the victims in the Robb Elementary School mass shooting the day before. The friend found out at midnight after having to give a DNA sample to police so they could match the identification of her child.
“They had to give DNA because they couldn’t recognize some of them. The damage he did was unspeakable,” Pedraza said of the alleged killer, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.
Nineteen children and two teachers were fatally shot in the massacre before a Border Patrol special agent fatally shot the attacker….