77 Minutes in Their Shoes: Art exhibit highlights gun violence, honors Robb Elementary shooting victims [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas – Inside an Austin art gallery are snapshots of innocence and grief — and a call for awareness.

“I don’t think we realized the sadness that everybody is carrying with them, and looking at these pictures you see, you see a different side of them,“ said Veronica Mata, whose daughter, Tess, was killed at Robb Elementary. ”You see that hurt. That pain.”

“77 Minutes in Their Shoes” is an exhibit at the Canopy Projects Gallery in Austin. Each image captures the shoes victims of the Robb Elementary shooting wore on May 24, 2022, as well as a vest belonging to teacher Eva Mireles. The victims’ loved ones are photographed holding them.

“They’re small. They’re different sizes,” said Kim Rubio, whose daughter, Lexi, was killed in the shooting. Rubio said she was only given one of her daughter’s shoes.

“It takes your breath away,” Mata said.

Rubio, Mata and Gloria Cazares are part of a Uvalde nonprofit called Lives Robbed. The organization …