Morrisville, N.C. — A group got here collectively in Morrisville on Wednesday evening to honor the college students and academics killed in an elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, eight days in the past.
While they gathered, phrase took place another lethal mass shooting at a medical constructing in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“I’m sick of dropping off my kids at school and not knowing if that’s the last time I’ll see them,” mentioned Sarah Sydney, who organized the occasion.
Sydney, who’s a mom of three, mentioned she organized the vigil to honor the lives misplaced in Texas and to lift consciousness on gun management.
“You can’t finish the funerals from one mass shooting before you’re hearing the news of the next one,” mentioned Sydney.
As folks gathered at the Morrisville park, new broke of the shooting in Tulsa. Police say 4 folks have been killed in the shooting at a medical constructing on a hospital campus. The shooter was additionally lifeless from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“Someone had just got an alert on their phone and let me know there was yet another one — this time in Oklahoma,” mentioned Sydney.
The shooting in Oklahoma comes eight days after an 18-year-old armed with an computerized rifle killed 19 youngsters and two academics at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Sydney mentioned the worry is insufferable.
“Every time I hear sirens in the vicinity of my children’s school, my first thought is, ‘This could be it.’ That’s not freedom,” she mentioned.