UVALDE, Texas (AP) β Days after a local man burst into an elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers before officers managed to kill him, the signs of grief, solidarity, and local pride are everywhere in Uvalde.
Many are wearing maroon, the color for Uvaldeβs school district. And light blue ribbons adorn the giant oaks that shade the cityβs central square, where mourners come to lay flowers around a fountain and write messages on wooden crosses that bear the victimsβ names.
In front of a daycare center on one of the cityβs main streets, 21 wooden chairs sit empty.
Everyone in the predominantly Latino city of roughly 16,000 people seems to know someone whose life has been turned upside down.
