Rally, vigils at Texas Capitol for Uvalde school shooting

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Folks throughout the nation are processing the lack of 19 elementary college students and two lecturers killed Tuesday at their college in Uvalde, Texas. In the meantime, at Texas’ capital, individuals are calling for change and remembering the victims.

Flowers and indicators lined the stroll close to the Governor’s Mansion in Austin when KXAN checked round 2 p.m. Wednesday. The piles of reminders continued to develop into the night.

“RIP Uvalde Infants,” learn one.

“Are you able to assure my security? I’m 5 years previous. Sufficient is sufficient!” one other yellow signal, written with markers, mentioned.

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A small group additionally marched from the Governor’s Mansion to the Capitol and held a rally on the south steps. Mothers Demand Motion organized the rally and it featured statements and speeches from a few Texas lawmakers. Mothers Demand Motion is a nonprofit and “grassroots motion of People preventing for public security measures that may defend folks from gun violence.”

“Now we have turn out to be a violent society, however this society is ours in a democracy and we are able to take it again,” Texas Sen. Sarah Eckhardt (D) mentioned. This isn’t Texas, she added.

Rep. Vikki Goodwin (D) mentioned gun violence is private for her. She misplaced her father to gun violence.

“We’ve acquired to do one thing on this nation,” she mentioned earlier than the gang of some dozen folks.

One other vigil is deliberate to start out on the Texas Capitol at 6 p.m. organized by The Coalition Austin, a student-run social justice nonprofit. It requested folks to convey candles and flowers and mentioned it could be a “secure area for concern, grief and anger.”

Uvalde remembers these misplaced

Tuesday night, folks gathered on the Getty Avenue Church of Christ in Uvalde for a vigil.

On Wednesday, KXAN reporter Tahera Rahman spoke to a bunch exhibiting assist at Getty and Important Streets in Uvalde. They’re all buddies who informed Rahman they wanted to get off their telephones and do one thing to assist their neighborhood.