Customized caskets bearing images of dinosaurs, llamas, slime, the TikTok logo, basketballs, musical notes and pickles have been delivered to Uvalde, as the tragic task of burying the dead from last week’s school shooting begins.
The coffins have been made by a Texas businessman, Trey Ganem, whose company Soul Shine Industries specializes in personalized caskets.
Ganem normally charges $3,400 for the caskets, but has donated them to the families of the 19 children and two teachers murdered at Robb Elementary School on May 24.
He was asked to make 18 of the 19 caskets for the children, and one of the two adult coffins.
It comes as the grieving families of two 10-year-old girls who were shot dead alongside their classmates and teachers laid the children to rest yesterday in the first of the funerals for the victims of the massacre.
Amerie Jo Garza and Maite Yuleana Rodriguez, both 10, were buried yesterday in Uvalde, Texas – a day that should have been the first day of a joyous week of summer break for Robb Elementary School students.
It marks the first of 21 funerals for those killed, as their shattered families demand answers over the police response to the mass shooting.
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Source: Daily Mail
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