UVALDE, Texas — (UVALDE, Texas) -- Jerry Mata, whose 10-year-old daughter Tess was killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting last year, still returns to the campus of Robb Elementary to honor his child.
"I've been coming at nighttime, every once in a while," Mata told ABC News."This was her last place, where she took her last breath. I have to come until it's demolished."
Irene Stone, the director of development at Uvalde's El Progreso Library, and whose family helped construct the school back in 1955, said the school's past should not be erased. In the spring of 1970, 650 students staged a walkout after the firing of one of the school's only Latino and bilingual instructors. The protest led to a lawsuit that found the district was in violation of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling 16 years prior and resulted in an order to the district to desegregate in 1976.
Gary Patterson, a career administrator named interim superintendent in Harrell's place, said he supports the decision to demolish the school, but acknowledged questions about how to honor Robb's legacy are complicated. Mercedes Salas, a teacher at Robb Elementary who survived the massacre and whose own children attended the school, said the school evokes complicated emotions for her and her family.
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