'After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics' documentary premieres tonight on PBS and streaming platforms

Family members of the victims, and supporters
(Photo by Evan L'Roy of The Texas Tribune)

Just over a year ago, an 18-year-old walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and opened fire with two legally-purchased AR-style weapons, killing 19 children and two adults.

Premiering tonight on PBS and streaming platforms, "After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics" is a profound and powerful look at a grieving community’s efforts to heal and the fight over assault-style rifles in Texas. . . . The documentary will be available to watch in full at pbs.org/frontline and in the PBS App starting tonight at 7/6c, and on  Frontlines’s YouTube channel at 10/9c. Check local listings here.

In the "Frontline" documentary with Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa probes lingering questions about why this tragedy happened, scrutinizes the police response, examines gun politics in Texas, and explores how some of the Robb Elementary families have navigated their transformed lives in the year since the shooting.

“For the last year, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about these families and about Uvalde,” Hinojosa says in the documentary. “I need to know: What does a place like Uvalde do after a horrific tragedy like this?"

The twice-weekly Uvalde Leader-News published a memorial magazine last week, and Publisher Craig Garnett wrote about it.