Matthew McConaughey Visits his Hometown Of Uvalde, TX, to Honor Shooting Victims

Friday (May 27th), Matthew McConaughey traveled to his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, to pay his respects for the 19 children and two teachers, who were killed during the Robb Elementary School shooting, last week.

McConaughey was born in Uvalde, and his mother worked as a teacher, at a school approximately a mile away from Robb Elementary.

The Dazed and Confused actor visited the Uvalde Civic Center, alongside U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales.  Together, they met with families of the victims.  Gonzales shared photos of the visit to Twitter on Friday (May 27th).  In a follow-up post, he wrote, “Thank you Matthew for helping to heal our community.  Your visit brought so many smiling faces to Uvalde.  See you soon my friend.”

McConaughey shared a moving post about the shooting, earlier in the week. “This is an epidemic we can control, and whichever side of the aisle we may stand on, we all know we can do better.  We must do better.  Action must be taken so that no parent has to experience what the parents in Uvalde and the others before them have endured,” he wrote.

• Matthew McConaughey visited his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, on Friday (May 27th) to meet with the families of the 19 children and two teachers who were killed during the Robb Elementary School shooting last week. McConaughey was born in Uvalde, and his mother worked as a teacher at a school approximately a mile away from Robb Elementary.