In Uvalde, Latinos worry over enduring mental health toll of school shooting
Parents and mental health professionals in Uvalde, Texas worry about the longterm mental health effects of kids and adults as they grapple with the school shooting.
Guadalupe Leija's 8-year-old son, Samuel, was finishing second grade at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, when it became the site of one of the deadliest U.S. school shootings ever.
The father rushed to his son’s school after learning about the shooting on Tuesday. Law enforcement officials were already at the scene, but that did not stop Leija from feeling helpless.
Samuel survived. The boy was in a different building than the one a gunman came in and killed 19 children and two teachers.
Three days later, the second grader has not yet talked about what happened that day.
Leija described Samuel as "the type of kid that wants to know everything. But as of today, he has not asked about what happened or what's happening," he told NBC News Thursday afternoon.
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