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By Blake Haas
BLOOMINGTON – A Bloomington man is giving back to Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two adults were gunned down in one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings.
On Thursday, Marcos Mendez organized a fundraiser with 13 music performers at Nightshop in downtown Bloomington.
“It might have happened in Uvalde this time, but it’s happened all over the country for too long now,” he said on the Afternoon Show. “So for us to just come together and say ‘we see you, you’re not alone in your pain,’ we are all suffering as Americans together.”
The benefit, which raised $3,000, featured signers from central Illinois donating their time for the benefit.
“We feel your pain. We can not understand what you are going through. But, what we can do is if there is any burden that you feel or anything that is on your shoulder, just know that there are people here to help you,” said Mendez, who is from Texas.
All of the proceeds from the benefit went to the Robb School Memorial Fund.
Blake Haas can be reached at [email protected].