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A memorial honoring the 10 people who were killed during a shooting at a Texas high school in 2018 has been unveiled on the third anniversary of the deadly incident
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Corrigan Garcia, who graduated from Santa Fe High School in 2018, and Maegan Huddleston, who graduated in 2019, and Megan Grove, who chair s the Santa Fe Ten Memorial Foundation, place ten feathers representing the ten victims of the 2018 Santa Fe school shooting on the new memorial to the ten victims, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, outside of the high school in Santa Fe, Texas. The Santa Fe Ten Memorial Foundation unveiled the Unfillable Chair, a student designed memorial, on the third anniversary of the shooting. The foundation is planning a larger memorial for the future. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
‘Unfillable Chair’ memorial honors Santa Fe HS shooting victims
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Santa Fe HS dedicates memorial to students, staff who died during the mass shooting. (KPRC)
SANTA FE, Texas – A memorial honoring the 10 people who were killed during a shooting at a Texas high school in 2018 was unveiled on Tuesday, the third anniversary of the deadly incident.
On May 18, 2018, eight students and two teachers were killed at Santa Fe High School, when another student opened fire inside the campus about 55 miles southeast of Houston. Thirteen other people were wounded in the shooting.
The memorial, called “the Unfillable Chair,” is comprised of an aluminum chair that stands 8 feet (2.44 meters) tall, with the empty seat being 4 feet (1.22 meters) wide by 3 feet (0.91 meters) deep. The names of the victims are displayed on the front of the chair.
The empty chair s exaggerated height re-enforces the concept that the chair will never be filled and will sit in commemoration of those lost too soon, according to a foundation of current and former students as well as parents and community members behind the memorial.
The chair was designed by a group of five current and former students.
During a ceremony at the high school on Tuesday, Reagan Gaona, one of the chair s student designers who graduated last year, said while the 10 victims are no longer… with us, we ll always have a place for them in our hearts.
The chair, which will sit outside on the campus, was set to be part of larger memorial comprised of a meditative grove and 10 concrete, feather-shaped monoliths for each victim. The foundation is still raising funds for the larger memorial.
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