Uvalde shooting survivors seek comfort anywhere, including in the arms of bikers

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People in Uvalde are praying everywhere and all the time.

At the makeshift memorial in the town square, there are at least two people at any given time offering to pray with mourners gathered there. At the Local Fix, a small coffee shop and restaurant near the center of town, clusters of people close their eyes and clasp their hands together as they wait to put in their orders.

Even at Murphy USA — a gas station on Main Street at the east edge of town — members of the Journey Riders, Sons of God Motorcycle Club, a Christian biker group, lay their hands on a petite little girl who survived the bloody massacre at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday.

Nine-year-old Aubriella Melchor told NPR she narrowly escaped the slaughter because she'd been in the bathroom when the gunman entered the school.

Somewhere in the middle of washing her hands and drying them she missed the teachers yelling and warning children that there was an active shooter in the building. So as she stepped out into the hallway, Melchor said, she stepped into an exchange of gunfire between the shooter, who was running down the hallway, and law enforcement.