Uvalde and Santa Fe are about 315 miles from each other, but their residents are like family. They are connected in the worst possible way: They are both sites of Texas school shootings.
Christina Delgado, from left, sits with Brett and Nikki Cross in the House Chamber gallery at the Capitol in Austin, Thursday, April 27, 2023. Delgado, Texas advocacy associate for the Community Justice Action Fund from Santa Fe, worked closely with the Crosses as they put pressure on lawmakers to pass the Raise the Age bill, HB2744, which was ultimately unsuccessful.“Unfortunately, we're a part of this club that nobody wants to be a part of,” Cross said.
Hart met some of the other Uvalde parents that day, too. She talked to Kimberly Garcia, the mother of 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, and “instantly connected” with her. Amerie was a Girl Scout, just like Hart’s daughter.She’d been saying for years there would be another Texas school shooting if the state's leaders didn’t take action on gun safety laws. Her worst fears were coming true, and she knew exactly what the Uvalde parents were about to experience.
“I was like, ‘I'm not letting those people go on camera. ... They don't need to talk to anybody,’” she recalled. The Rices are off again, out of Santa Fe this week. The Crosses are traveling to Santa Fe on Thursday to attend a vigil outside Santa Fe High School. Hart will attend another in Uvalde next week.On Valentine’s Day 2018, a teenage gunman murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
She usually travels to Austin with a handful of Santa Fe relatives: Hart; the Rice family; and Rosie Yanas Stone, who lost her son Chris. They usually have support from national gun violence prevention groups, like Moms Demand Action.“What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? now,” shouts 10-year-old Caitlyne Gonzales, center, as she helps lead Texans marching from First Baptist Church of Austin to the Capitol building in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023.
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