Portraits of Grief From Uvalde

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. Gemma Lopez, 10, watched a movie in class that day. Jacob Albarado, a Border Patrol officer, was getting his hair cut when he heard there was a gunman at his daughter’s school, where his wife is a teacher. Ricardo Garcia, a hospital groundskeeper, can still hear the screaming of parents in the emergency room. These are some of the stories of those who lived through the devastation of the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Taverny-Z. This is the Daily.
0:07.0	In the small and close-knit community of Uvalde, Texas, the killing of 21 people at an elementary school has left few lives untouched.
0:19.0	Over the past few days, my colleague's Rick Rojas, Natalie Ketroff, Eduardo Medina and I, set out to tell some of those stories.
0:35.0	It's Wednesday, June 1st.
0:38.0	Hi. All right. What do you mind just spelling your name for me to make sure I have that right?
0:50.0	G-E-M-M-A.
0:53.0	And your last name?
0:55.0	Lopez L-O-P-E-Z.
0:57.0	And how old are you?
0:59.0	Ten years old.
1:01.0	And just to be sure you're her grandmother?
1:03.0	Yes, I'm a grandmother.
1:04.0	I have custody of her.
1:05.0	Okay, okay. Great. Great. So this first off, tell me about today. What have you been doing today?
1:10.0	Today, I didn't just wake up. I woke up at 7, because she just got here at 7.
1:17.0	And then we did a lot of stuff. We were playing around with our playing hide and seek for a little bit.
1:24.0	We went to our grandpa's and then we were playing around with Alexis, my little cousin.
1:33.0	Okay. And so what grade are you?
1:36.0	I'm in fourth grade.
1:38.0	So you've been just been playing and just trying to take it easy today?
1:43.0	Yeah, and then we got chicken and we ate it here and then we were just playing around here.
1:49.0	Nice. And so you're just, we were talking about your classroom being close to there.
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