Meghan Markle, a former actress and the Duchess of Sussex, paid her respects to those who died in the city’s elementary school shooting at a memorial site in Texas. On Thursday, she was seen wearing a white tee and denims as she placed white flowers outside the Uvalde County Courthouse. This week, an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, killing 19 students and two teachers.
Meghan, her husband, Prince Harry, and their two children live in California. According to her spokesperson, she travelled to Texas in her personal capacity as a mother to express her condolences and support in person to a “community experiencing unimaginable grief.”
Meghan knelt and hung her head at the cross for Uziyah Garcia, a 10-year-old victim. She left the flowers at the memorial and walked around looking at the memorials with her arms crossed.
The shooter, Salvador Ramos, a young local, was killed by law enforcement officers. At their Uvalde home, he shot his 66-year-old grandmother in the face, then fled in her truck while she called for help. Shortly before the school massacre, he outlined his violent plans in online messages. The motive for the shootings has yet to be determined, according to investigators.
Officials said the gunman crashed his truck outside the school, exited with a rifle, and approached a back door. They claimed he was “engaged” by a school officer, but he entered the building and walked down a hallway to a fourth-grade classroom. He opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle and multiple magazines after locking the classroom door. Local officers and Border Patrol agents eventually forced the door open and shot him after he fired at them, according to police.
