Nearly year has elapsed since a gunman entered Noah Orona and Mayah Zamora's classroom in Uvalde. Mayah was shot seven times. Noah survived by playing dead. The two fourth graders are still trying to recover through physical and psychological therapy.
Noah Orona, who was wounded in the shooting at Robb Elementary School, practices basketball on the hoop outside of his family’s home in Uvalde, Texas, on Feb. 16, 2023.
Mayah, now 11, has hardly been back to Uvalde at all: Her parents moved the family an hour and a half away to San Antonio — closer to the hospital where doctors, in surgery after surgery, have tried to remove the bits of metal shrapnel lodged in her body. That was when the gunman, who within days of his 18th birthday had purchased two AR-15-style rifles and more than 1,700 rounds of 5.56 mm hollow-point bullets, burst in from the hallway. He unleashed a barrage of gunfire in both classrooms.
He could not get to his son’s classroom. Noah had been crying hysterically at the moment that the tactical team finally entered, video images showed later, but by the time he was loaded into an ambulance, he had shut down, Diaz-Orona said. “He has not cried since.” Dr. Ronald Stewart, a senior trauma surgeon at University Hospital in San Antonio who treated her, had seen these kinds of extreme injuries five years earlier, when a gunman armed with another AR-15-style rifle killed 26 people and wounded 22 others at a church in nearby Sutherland Springs, Texas.
By June, her condition was upgraded from critical to fair, and she was able to begin physical therapy. She was still unable to walk or move like she used to but was spending six hours a day working to regain movement of her legs and hands. But even there, loud noises sometimes terrify Mayah. She wakes up crying with nightmares and sometimes runs to her brother’s room.
Mayah likes to spend time on her phone, sharing bits of her life with close friends on social media: smiling selfies, videos of her dancing. She imagines a life in the arts, of being a painter or maybe a singer. “I want to be famous and walk the red carpet,” she said. But in February, the parents of one of Mayah’s classmates, Tess Mata, invited them to mark what would have been Tess’ 11th birthday. It was going to be where Tess was, at the cemetery in Uvalde.
Gradually, Noah regained nearly full movement of his limbs and started counseling sessions once a week. They tried to take him out to the mall or to a movie, and Noah would push himself to be more social; then he would suddenly become withdrawn, overwhelmed by crowds and loud noise. He says he sometimes sees himself in the hero’s alter ego, Peter Parker, a kid who like him wears dark-rimmed glasses and sometimes feels like an outsider. “He’s shy but then becomes a cool superhero,” Noah said softly as he drew the spider web marks on the mask, and oval eyes. “I wish I had his superpowers.”
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