A vigil was held in Morrisville for the Texas school shooting victims. As they gathered, another mass shooting happened.
A community came together in Morrisville on Wednesday night to honor the students and teachers killed in an elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, eight days ago.
Posted — UpdatedWhile they gathered, word came about another deadly mass shooting at a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"I'm sick of dropping off my kids at school and not knowing if that's the last time I'll see them," said Sarah Sydney, who organized the event.
Sydney, who is a mother of three, said she organized the vigil to honor the lives lost in Texas and to raise awareness on gun control.
"You can’t finish the funerals from one mass shooting before you’re hearing the news of the next one," said Sydney.
"Someone had just got an alert on their phone and let me know there was yet another one — this time in Oklahoma," said Sydney.
The shooting in Oklahoma comes eight days after an 18-year-old armed with a semiautomatic rifle killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Sydney said the fear is unbearable.
"Every time I hear sirens in the vicinity of my children's school, my first thought is, 'This could be it.' That's not freedom," she said.
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