Sandy and Lonnie Phillips relived the worst day of their lives after listening to of a capturing at a Texas elementary college. They're now headed for the Lone Star State as a part of their mission to supply consolation and assets to different survivors of gun violence.

The couple based the group Survivors Empowered after their daughter, Jessica Redfield Ghawi, was killed within the 2012 capturing at a movie show in Aurora, Colorado. The group seeks to attach households affected by mass shootings with a community of different survivors, whereas offering instruments the Phillipses say they want they'd earlier.

An 18-year-old gunman on Tuesday killed 19 kids and two academics at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas.

"Our hearts—and any assist we may give—are with you," the couple stated in a press release as they made plans to move for Uvalde to "maintain the palms and damaged hearts of the households who anticipated to wake their kids this morning however won't ever give you the option to take action once more."

The Texas capturing got here on the heels of one other mass capturing, at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, earlier this month the place a gunman killed 10 folks in an incident authorities have referred to as "racially motivated violent extremism."

Mass in Uvalde, Texas
A pair who misplaced their daughter within the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, mass capturing head to Uvalde, Texas, to offer consolation and assets to the households devastated by Tuesday's bloodbath at Robb Elementary College. Above, folks attend a Mass in remembrance of the Uvalde victims at St. Phillip's Episcopal Church on Could 26, 2022. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photographs

Following the capturing, the Phillipses have been in Buffalo to supply understanding to victims and assist them navigate the life-altering occasion. Survivors Empowered reaches out with its toolkit, developed with former Consultant Gabby Giffords who survived being shot by a gunman at a constituent assembly in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011.

The toolkit gives recommendation on how to deal with the vary of feelings following a capturing. It additionally gives suggestions for survivors on dealing with the sudden and intrusive consideration from media and strangers, in addition to surprising authorized points round fundraisers and harassment from conspiracy theorists.

"We attempt to put together them for the truth that they are going to lose pals and family members over this, since you are actually a brand new particular person, and they don't seem to be going to know what to do with you," Sandy Phillips informed Buffalo's WGRZ 2.

She added that with Survivors Empowered, these straight affected by mass shootings will "have a complete military round them of different survivors that will likely be there for them from today ahead."

Sandy Phillips informed Politico on Wednesday her group was leaving Buffalo when reviews of the capturing in Uvalde got here in. She stated she hadn't slept in 24 hours as she was ready to fly to Uvalde on Friday, the twentieth capturing she and her husband can have responded to within the 10 years since their daughter's demise.

Uvalde holds particular significance for the couple. Their daughter Jessica grew up in close by San Antonio and their son works as a primary responder within the space and confirmed up on scene following the capturing, reviews Denver's CBS affiliate KCNC-TV.

As their group grew, the Phillipses stop their jobs and rented out their house so they might journey extra simply, in keeping with a 2019 interview with 60 Minutes. The couple stated they do the work out of compassion but additionally as a result of it is therapeutic for them to work together with others who share their expertise.

"It is a membership that no person needs to belong to however when you're part of it, you possibly can't resign," Sandy Phillips informed Buffalo's WGRZ 2. "So, you may as properly turn out to be pals with each other and turn out to be one other kind of household."

Newsweek has reached out to the Phillipses for remark.