The Uvalde
school shooting, one of the deadliest school shootouts in US history, claimed
19 lives and continues to traumatise all those who were subject to the ordeal.
Now, a 10-year-old girl, a student of Robb Elementary School, who suffered
tremendous injuries during the shooting, has decided to not return to her
childhood home. Why? Because she lived blocks away from the gunman Salvador
Ramos, the 18-year-old who shot at her, her peers and her teachers.

Mayah
Zamorah was severely wounded at the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School
and had to spend 66 days at the hospital. With gunshot wounds to her hands,
chest and back, Zamorah had to undergo nearly 20 surgeries. Now that she’s out
of the hospital, she has been unable to go back to where she had grown up after
she learned that the man who shot at her lived very close to her home.

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Zamorah was
the last patient to leave the hospital. She was discharged from San Antonio University
Health Hospital on July 29. Nurses and other hospital staff greeted her with
flowers as she walked out of the hall, according to a video tweeted by the
hospital. But she did not go back home, according to Correa foundation.

“During her
hospital stay…Mayah discovered the shooting suspect lived just blocks away from
her home,” the Correa Family Foundation told KTRK, a CNN affiliate news network.
“Since she was discharged from the hospital, that knowledge has been too much
to bear, and she has been unable to return to her childhood home.”

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Consequently,
the Correa Family Foundation has decided to build a fully-furnished home for
her at a locality where she feels comfortable. The new home will partially be
funded by Puerto Rican pop artist Bad Bunny and cofounders of TokenSociety.io.