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Texas community turns to prayer for some type of peace after school shooting

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In Uvalde, Texas, people gathered Tuesday night to mourn those who were killed at Robb Elementary School.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Let's go directly to the voices of people affected² by yesterday's elementary school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Here's Texas Public Radio's Brian Kirkpatrick.

BRIAN KIRKPATRICK, BYLINE³: A prayer vigil was underway at the Getty Street Church of Christ within hours of the shooting. The church is very close to Robb Elementary, where many of the 600 students, grades two through four, had just returned from recess⁴. In just a couple of days, they were set to start summer vacation. Erika Escamilla has several nieces and nephews who attend the school. They all survived. She was among those at the church prayer vigil. Escamilla described the horror that unfolded in the school as teachers worked quickly to put classes in lockdown, locking doors, turning off lights and telling children to get down.

ERIKA ESCAMILLA: My niece was crying to me, and she was saying that she heard the guy cussing, and she heard, like, loud yelling, and she heard him cussing, and then she heard, like, a lot of loud bangs, the gunshots.

KIRKPATRICK: Escamilla explained what her niece did after the shooting started in her locked-down classroom.

ESCAMILLA: She just put her hands over her ears and got down into a ball, and she said, Tia, it felt like I was having a heart attack. I was so scared, I didn't know what to do.

KIRKPATRICK: Escamilla says the experience is something a young child should never be put through.

ESCAMILLA: I just want to say sorry to the children 'cause they're innocent, you know? They don't know. They don't know what's really going on in the world like we do.

KIRKPATRICK: The church's outreach minister, John Juhasz, says congregants were praying for the families of the victims, the medical teams working on the wounded and for the shooter himself, who the minister believes could have been helped with his troubles.

JOHN JUHASZ: I don't believe that somebody is just born evil. I believe that, you know, that's just the way that they turn because they get embittered⁵ to the world.

KIRKPATRICK: The outreach minister says Uvalde residents will need to love one another and set aside their differences to heal from the shooting in the days and months ahead. An early end to the school year was declared by school superintendent⁶ Hal Harrell because of the shooting. All school activities are canceled. Changes may also be coming for graduation ceremonies that were set for the 27.

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HAL HARRELL: My heart was broken today. We're a small community, and we will need your prayers to get us through this.

KIRKPATRICK: I'm Brian Kirkpatrick in Uvalde.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 recess   

n.短期休息，壁凹（墙上装架子，柜子等凹处）

参考例句：

• The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
• Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。

5 embittered   

v.使怨恨，激怒( embitter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• These injustices embittered her even more. 不公平使她更加受苦。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The artist was embittered by public neglect. 大众的忽视于那位艺术家更加难受。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 superintendent   

n.监督人，主管，总监；(英国)警务长

参考例句：

• He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监。
• He decided to call the superintendent of the building.他决定给楼房管理员打电话。