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One student was an avid runner, so fast that she swept the races on field day. Another was learning football plays from his grandfather. One girl sensed that something was wrong and wanted to skip school.
Stories have begun to emerge about the lives of 19 children and their two teachers who were shot in the back of a barricaded door at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde in southwest Texas.
All the dead were in the same classroom, where the shooter barricaded himself and opened fire on the children and their teachers.
Superintendent of Schools Hal Harrell fought back tears as he talked about the children and their teachers.
“You can tell by their angelic smiles that they were loved,” Harrell said of the children. “That they liked coming to school, that they were beautiful people.”
These are the faces of the children and their two teachers shot down in the attack.