Uvalde shooting survivors seek comfort anywhere, including in the arms of bikers
Nine-year-old Aubriella Melchor said she narrowly escaped the slaughter because she'd been in the bathroom. At a gas station, Christian bikers joined the girl and her mother to pray.
by Vanessa Romo
May 29, 2022
3 minutes
UVALDE, Texas — People in Uvalde are praying everywhere and all the time.
At the makeshift memorial in the town square, there are at least two people at any given time offering to pray with mourners gathered there. At the Local Fix, a small coffee shop and restaurant near the center of town, clusters of people close their eyes and clasp their hands together as they wait to put in their orders.
Even at Murphy USA — a gas station on Main Street at the east edge of town — members of the Journey
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