America’s Anguish: Here Are Some of the Recent Shooting Victims and Stories Congress Can Highlight

Five startling statistics about US shootings 2:15 (CNN) — Parents of victims and a survivor of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, will speak at a hearing held by the Commission of Oversight of the United States House of Representatives this Wednesday on the epidemic of gun violence. “Ultimately, this hearing is about saving lives, and I hope it will galvanize my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pass legislation to do just that,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., of New York, said in a statement. the Commission. Before the hearing to be held at 10 am Miami time, here is CNN’s previous coverage of the shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo and an elementary school in Uvalde. What we know about the victims at Robb Elementary School Nineteen boys ages 10 and 11 died after a gunman opened fire inside a classroom at Robb Elementary School. Fourth grade teachers Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles were also killed in the May 24 shooting. This is what friends and family want everyone to remember about the people they lost. Funerals begin for Uvalde victims 4:51 What we know about Buffalo shooting victims Ten people were killed in a shooting at a Buffalo supermarket last month, a massacre authorities believe was racially motivated. Thirteen people, between the ages of 20 and 86, were shot. Eleven were black and two were white, according to Buffalo police. Zeneta Everhart, the mother of one of the survivors, Zaire Goodman, is expected to address the House panel on Wednesday. Goodman, 21, worked at the supermarket and is the only black person to have been shot and survived. 11-Year-Old Uvalde Shooting Survivor Says She Got Blood on Herself and Played Dead Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old Uvalde shooting survivor, will also testify before the House committee on Wednesday. She had previously spoken exclusively to CNN about her horrific experience that day inside the classroom where the mass shooting took place. Niña would have faked her death during the shooting in Uvalde and survived 1:19 Cerrillo was afraid that the attacker would come back for her, so he smeared himself with her friend’s blood and pretended to be dead. She said that she felt like she had spent three hours there, covered in her classmate’s blood, with her friends. Lexi Rubio, 10, Uvalde shooting victim, named to the roll of honor before the gunman took her life This is the request of the father of Lexi Rubio, a girl victim of the Texas shooting 2:08 Lexi Rubio, 10 years old, she had attended an honor roll ceremony with her parents minutes before the shooter opened fire in her classroom, killing her. Her parents, Felix and Kimberly Rubio, are scheduled to appear at the congressional hearing on Wednesday. Buffalo residents mourn their loved ones and a community shelter Buffalo attacker reportedly planned shooting for months 2:58 CNN’s Alaa Elassar spoke with residents of Buffalo’s Masten Park neighborhood about the massacre that destroyed their shelter community. “The Tops Market is the only supermarket within a 4-mile radius of this largely black neighborhood and one that took more than a decade to arrive. It has now been marked by a deadly rampage whose remnants are evident in the stretches of police tape that now they guard the store,” writes Elassar. “Tops market was a place of community, a safe space to meet, talk, be together,” Phylicia Dove told CNN. “There’s no one here who hasn’t visited this Tops. It was ours. Even if it wasn’t the best, it was ours, and now our safe space has been infiltrated and taken away from us and that’s something we mourn.” 13 mass shootings over the weekend More than a dozen people were killed and more than 70 injured in at least 13 mass shootings last weekend in the US The US added 13 mass shootings last weekend 2:40 That included a shooting on Philadelphia’s South Street, where at least two people were killed and 11 others were wounded by gunshots. The country is on track to match or exceed last year’s mass shooting total, which is the worst on record, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Latest on Gun Negotiations The two top Republican senators involved in congressional talks on federal gun legislation said Monday that they are seeking to change the criminal background check system to access juvenile records before the completion of the arms sales. But they also noted Monday that Congress is unlikely to raise the age requirement to buy semi-automatic firearms to 21. Negotiators are considering a handful of ideas, such as encouraging states to enact so-called “red flag” laws, which allow guns to be temporarily taken from people deemed a danger to themselves or others.