'Children don't carry IDs': Texas official faced horror of identifying bodies of those he knew

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UVALDE, Texas - Eulalio Diaz Jr walked into the classroom where 19 children and two teachers were shot to death just a few hours before, looked down on the floor and saw one of his high school classmates. Elsewhere in the hellish scene were the bodies of fourth-graders - mostly nine- and ten-year-old children - whose parents were friends of...

Crosses with the names of victims of a school shooting, are pictured at a memorial outside Robb Elementary school, after a gunman killed nineteen children and two teachers, in Uvalde, Texas, US, on May 26, 2022.UVALDE, Texas - Eulalio Diaz Jr walked into the classroom where 19 children and two teachers were shot to death just a few hours before, looked down on the floor and saw one of his high school classmates.

His duties would usually centre on small court cases and officiating weddings, but because Uvalde does not have a medical examiner, Diaz has to act as coroner of the county, giving him the role of identifying the dead. When a tragedy of this dimension hits such a small place, it's like tossing a large rock into a tiny pond - the ripples of pain seem inescapable.

 

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