The hard truth behind the millions in Uvalde fund payments to victims’ families
A heart-shaped balloon flies decorating a memorial site outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Monday, May 30, 2022. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman at the school last week. The families of the students and teachers killed or wounded in the May 24 mass shooting at, along with hundreds of others who were on campus at the time of the massacre, have received a combined $22.3 million in donations.
It’s not clear how much each Uvalde family received. Mayor Don McLaughlin Jr. said he’d heard that some families may have gotten as much as $900,000. Others said the upper range was probably around $700,000. Yet there is some money available to help survivors and their families. Gov. Greg Abbott committed $5 million in state funds for a relief effort within days of the massacre,The lack of such assistance may be one of the reasons the focus on Uvalde Together We Rise Fund disbursements is so sharp — in a rural community of 15,000 residents where the poverty rate is 21 percent.
The Uvalde Together We Rise Fund distributed money to students, teachers and support staff, such as janitors and cafeteria workers — anyone who was on Robb Elementary grounds when the gunman began his rampage at 11:27 a.m. All others on campus that day were sorted into Categories C, D and E, depending on their proximity to the classrooms 111 and 112, where the killings took place, and other factors.
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