Uvalde's darkest hour / Craig Garnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garnett, Craig, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uvalde School Shooting, Uvalde, Tex., 2022.

School shootings--Texas--Uvalde.

School shootings.

School police--Texas--Uvalde.

School police.

School crisis management--Texas--Uvalde.

School crisis management.

Police-community relations--Texas--Uvalde.

Police-community relations.

Gun control--Political aspects--United States.

Gun control.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"When the police scanner announced an active shooter at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022, Uvalde Leader-News staff writers held their collective breath. In those confusing and terrifying moments, these journalists embarked on coverage that no community newspaper should ever have to undertake. Among that five-person staff was Kimberly Rubio, whose 10-year-old daughter Lexi was killed in her classroom along with 18 classmates and two teachers. The trauma of that loss and the second tragedy-the 77 minutes that law enforcement waited to rescue children from an 18-year-old mass murderer-shattered faith in the community's most trusted institutions. Craig Garnett, owner and publisher of the Uvalde Leader-News, has compiled first-hand accounts that follow the community's halting steps toward healing and Kimberly Rubio's simultaneous plunge into activism. This chilling story, told with both clear-eyed journalistic integrity and gripping emotional intensity, chronicles the horrific chain of events, introduces readers to the principal actors, and relates the aftermath as the community tries to heal, to make sense of the incomprehensible, and to seek meaningful change on the local and state level. As readers follow this journey, there will be moments when the sheer tragedy may cause them to put the book aside. But the people whose lives are revealed here have no such luxury. This is their story"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sounds of Emergency

The "Mexican School"

Celebration

Into Darkness

552 Diaz Street

"Shut It Down"

77 Minutes

"Let Us Go In"

Asylum

Medical Emergency

Reunification

Job from Hell

Notification

Invasion

"It Could Have Been Worse"

"Make It Black"

"Look What They Did"

Outpouring

Never-Ending Funeral

"Fire the Cowards"

Advocating for Angels

A Monumental Project

Failure Becomes Official

Goodbye, Chief(s)

Back to School

A Widening Divide

Día de los Muertos

Vote Him Out

Survivors

Happy Birthday

Banking on Grief

Twenty-One for Twenty-One

More Bitter than Sweet

"Where Is the Empathy?"

Where to from Here?

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1648433006

OCLC:

1519994568