To the parents, to the agents who confronted the gunman, to the children and teachers, to...
Arianah Alvarez, 8, places a flower at the front of the memorial at Robb Elementary on Friday, June 2. Alvarez, who lives in Crystal City, came with her family to pay respects.For Thumbs, a trip through the past week’s news always seems to turn up just the right stew of the sublime and the silly, making sarcasm and sass the best tools to bring it all into focus with a grin. This week, amid all the heartbreak still flowing from Uvalde, we are thinking about them and the ongoing gun violence.
the AP. Now these same parents and neighbors, including Cazares, whose 9-year-old daughter Jacklyn was killed, are the ones who must pick up the pieces of this tragedy.Eventually, law enforcement burst into the school and confronted the gunman, taking fire as he emerged from a closet in a fourth-grade classroom. The tactical agents were behind a ballistic shield and fired back, stopping the 18-year-old gunman in his tracks, and ending the threat to students and teachers.
We can imagine few more horrifying experiences than being caught inside a school when word of an active shooter spreads. To hear the gunshots, then the screams and the noise of doors opening and shutting? To run for your lives once an escape route opens? Terrifying. And then there were those who couldn’t get out, not until the shooter was killed. Trapped by a heavily armed killer, they hid, some pretending to be dead, and others simply huddling until a chance of safety presented itself.
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