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    'The devil was in the midst of us': School shooting strikes the heart of small-town Texas

    UVALDE, Texas — Growing up in this small ranching town, Juan Martinez knew he wanted nothing more than to stay. It's a conservative, majority Latino town where family and faith are everything. Churches in Uvalde post signs reminding residents to pray, alongside stores advertising "liquor/guns." The pull of family is strong — stronger than the lure of San Antonio about 80 miles to the east on ...
    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times May 27, 2022 5 minutes
    A Robb Elementary school employee named Amy visits a memorial for the victims of a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Thursday, May 26, 2022.

    UVALDE, Texas — Growing up in this small ranching town, Juan Martinez knew he wanted nothing more than to stay.

    It's a conservative, majority Latino town where family and faith are everything. Churches in Uvalde post signs reminding residents to pray, alongside stores advertising "liquor/guns."

    The pull of family is strong — stronger than the lure of San Antonio about 80 miles to the east on Highway 90 or of the quintessential Texas oilfields to the north and west or Mexico 60 miles southwest, where many families trace their roots.

    That small-town history that kept so many here has been obscured this week by the deadly attack at Robb Elementary School, in which an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers.

    The town of approximately 16,000 is semirural. People come here to hunt deer. They go tubing on

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