well.
Cheddar anchor Shannon linear joins us now to talk more
about the ones we lost in the tragedy in texas.
Yeah,
the pain and the grief from this week's shooting in 1/4 grade
classroom at Rob Elementary School in Uvalde Texas is still with us.
So we thought it would be fitting to end the week by pausing
to remember some of the faces of the 19 Children and their teachers,
Alexandria anya rubio 10 years old.
A Marie Jo Garza was 10.
Yeah,
annabelle Rodriguez 10
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Jose Flores was 10.
Navia Bravo was 10 years old.
Tess Martha was 10 years old.
Use a A Garcia was only eight years old.
Xavier Javier Lopez was 10 years old.
Irma Garcia was 48 years old.
Mhm.
Eva Morales was 44 years old,
thursday was supposed to be graduation day at rob elementary. Instead,
this small community is left with the terrible task
Planning.
funerals
Shannon, Thank you so much for that just rips your heart out
in other news.
We're following today,
firearms were the leading cause of death for Children for the first time
in 2020 that according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
nearly two thirds of the more than 4300 kids younger than
19 who died of homicide were victims were homicide victims.
Excuse me.
Motor vehicle crashes were formally the leading cause of death. There
They killed 4000 Children. Another 30% of the fatalities were suicide.
Young males were more likely to be killed by guns.
While vehicle crashes took the lives of more females.
There were also some stark racial differences as well.
The firearm death rate for black Children was
more than four times that of white Children
Washington, D.
C, had the highest firearm death rate, followed by Louisiana,
Alaska and Mississippi.