Fort Worth Residents Come Together For Uvalde, Tulsa Victims

Arlington TX

05 June, 2022

6:40 PM

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By Cristian ArguetaSoto, Fort Worth Report June 5, 2022 Chapel Hill Academy teacher Lana Runnels, 45, was hit hard by the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde on May 24. She was inside the Wedgewood Baptist Church when a shooter opened fire on Sept. 15, 1999. "I feel exhausted. I feel exhausted. I'm a teacher, I have children and I'm a survivor of a shooting," Runnels said at Lena Pope's "Be the Light" gathering on June 2. "I feel exhausted that 20 plus years later, we are still dealing with some of the same things." Runnels teaches second grade, and the Uvalde shooting happened a day before Chapel Hill's last day of classes. She did not speak to her students about the shooting, but Chapel Hill Academy's gifted and talented teacher Melanie Kinsbury, 53, did. "The day of the shooting was our eighth-grade graduation, and so at graduation that night, we took a moment of silence," Kingsbury said. "We had one more day with the students. So, we talked about it a little bit, mostly, I let the children voice their concerns. And we talked about how we need to work towards things being a safer place." To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.