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Jaclyn Diaz

2 mass shootings — 1,700 miles apart but bound by startling similarities

A man places flowers on crosses with the names of children killed outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Thursday. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)

In the span of less than two weeks, an elementary school and a grocery store more than 1,700 miles apart were shattered by gun violence. Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., now both share the tragic loss of friends and family.

These two tragedies happened on separate ends of the country and yet, both share similarities: how the violence was carried out, certain aspects of the suspects, and the ease in which the weapons were accessed.

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