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    With Shiny Pink And Camo, Casket Designer Honors Texas Shooting Victims

    Trey Ganem is offering free customized caskets for the victims of Sunday's shooting. He hopes his designs help to celebrate their lives.
    by Nathan Rott Nov 10, 2017 3 minutes
    Kenneth Burnett and Maggie Rivera sand a casket, readying it for a pink camouflage paint job at the shop in Edna, Texas. The woman it's for loved to hunt.

    In the middle of the showroom at Trey Ganem Designs, is a small casket on a rolling cart. It's not yet fully assembled, but it's painted a dazzling, sparkling pink.

    The casket is for a little girl – one of the 26 lives lost in Sunday's massacre at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

    "Her dad just said, 'that's my princess," Trey Ganem says, so Ganem is building her a princess casket

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