The Texas Tribune: Evan L’Royhttps://www.texastribune.org/about/staff/evan-lroy/The latest news by Evan L’Roy.enMon, 22 May 2023 05:00:00 -0500A year ago, these Uvalde kids left school early. They’re haunted by what happened next.https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/22/texas-uvalde-shooting-robb-students-family-trauma/The three Treviño children have suffered from panic attacks and nightmares since a mass shooting a year ago this week left 19 of their schoolmates and two teachers dead. Their parents are striving to help their kids feel normal again.Uriel J. García and Evan L’RoyMon, 22 May 2023 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/22/texas-uvalde-shooting-robb-students-family-trauma/Illiaña Treviño and her sister Ameliaña have their hair braided at the Plaza Barber Shop.Illiana, 12, and her sister Amelia Treviño, 13, have their hair combed and braided at the Plaza Barber Shop in Uvalde on March 23, 2023. Both the girls get their braids done before every softball game.Evan L’Roy/The Texas TribunePhotos: In the wake of tragedy, Uvalde residents look to murals for healinghttps://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/03/uvalde-shooting-victims-murals/Murals of the victims give the community a positive outlet to process their grief and celebrate their loved ones’ lives.Evan L’RoyThu, 03 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/03/uvalde-shooting-victims-murals/A compilation of Uvalde's 22 murals created in memory of the people who died from the school shooting in Uvalde. 21 grids feature painted portraits of the children and adults that died and another grid features a mural with the names of all the victims.They saved to buy their own mobile homes. Then the land beneath them was sold to an investor.https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/27/texas-mobile-home-parks-austin-housing/Mobile homes are a vital source of affordable housing for around 2 million Texans. But as Texas cities grow, many mobile home parks are being closed and redeveloped, pushing out longtime residents.Lucy Tompkins, The Texas Tribune and The New York Times, and Evan L’Roy, The Texas TribuneTue, 27 Sep 2022 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/27/texas-mobile-home-parks-austin-housing/Sisters Edith, Carolina and Maribel Velarde watch as workers from Magnolia Movers struggle to fit their fridge through the front door of their home at Congress Mobile Home Park in Austin on Aug. 29.Sisters Edith, Carolina, and Maribel Velarde watch as workers from Magnolia Movers struggle to fit their fridge through the front door of their home at Congress Mobile Home Park in Austin on Aug. 29, 2022.Evan L'Roy/The Texas TribunePhotos from Uvalde: How a grief-stricken community prepared to send its children back to schoolhttps://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/06/uvalde-back-to-school/Today, students in Uvalde return to classrooms for the first day of school, just 15 weeks after the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.Evan L’RoyTue, 06 Sep 2022 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/06/uvalde-back-to-school/Adam Martinez and his son, Zayon, 8, at their home in Uvalde on Aug. 12, 2022, examine school supplies for the upcoming school semester. Zayon was present at Robb Elementary during the school shooting in May and will not be returning to in-person classes for the upcoming school year.Adam Martinez and his son, Zayon, 8, examine some of the donated school supplies in preperation of the upcoming school semester in their home in Uvalde, on Aug. 12, 2022. Zayon was present at Robb at the recent school shooting, and will not be returing to in-person classes for the upcoming school year, instead choosing to use the online schooling option.Evan L'Roy/The Texas TribuneThe eviction crisis in photos: How three Texans faced losing their homes during a pandemichttps://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/23/coronavirus-texas-evictions-photos/With the final CDC eviction moratorium now set to expire at the end of July, three Texas families recount their experiences facing their own housing struggles over the past year.Evan L’RoyWed, 23 Jun 2021 06:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/23/coronavirus-texas-evictions-photos/Lucille Hammash holds grandson Kenny Proctor as they watch a trackless party train drive by their neighborhood in central Houston on April 11, 2021.Lucille Hammash holds her grandson, Kenny Proctor, as they watch a trackless party train drive by their neighborhood in central Houston on April 11, 2021.Evan L'Roy/The Texas Tribune