Students and teachers from Oxford High School were in San Antonio Friday night on a special mission to connect with survivors of the Uvalde school at Robb Elementary.

It’s called Rosa, and it’s designed to stop gun violence before it happens. And here’s the cool part: the invention wasn’t thought up in Silicon Valley. It’s being made right here in Metro Detroit.

It’s exactly a week since 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. The mass shooting has more schools looking at their security measures. Some local districts are turning to Michigan-based The Lockdown Company, which installs an innovative lockdown and alert system.

Recent Oxford High School graduate and Oxford Cup winner Hannah Gibbons designed a shirt to show Oxford’s unending love and support for Uvalde.

Many are still feeling the shockwaves of the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, even here in Detroit, over 1,500 miles away. Education and political leaders are now weighing in on stopping this from happening moving forward.

The tragedy at Robb Elementary School has parents in a position where they have to explain what should be unimaginable.

It’s just about impossible to talk about Tuesday (May 24) afternoons massacre without also thinking about another elementary school shooting almost 10 years ago when 26 people were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, including a mother who lost her seven-year-old daughter.

At least 18 children and three adults were killed Tuesday in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas, officials confirmed.