Podcast: Oxford teen's 'little bestie' is Uvalde survivor

Detroit Free Press
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On The Line

  • Hosts: Cary Junior II

  • Producers: Cary Junior II, Darcie Moran and Robin Chan

  • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado and Maryann Struman

  • Guests: Free Press photojournalist Sarahbeth Maney, Oxford High School graduate Zoe Touray, 18, of Pontiac and attendees of the Uvalde survivors play day

  • Theme song: "Fort Trumbull" by DJ LostBoy, Detroit

  • Email: ontheline@freepress.com

On this episode: Running in the halls of a civic center, teasing each other while wiping dye-covered hands on the other's shirt, 18-year-old Zoe Touray of Pontiac and 10-year-old Caitlyne Gonzales of Uvalde, Texas, are just kids at play.

They aren't taking any podiums to call for gun control.

They aren't simply the titles they've been forced to take on -- that of school shooting survivors.

And that, as Touray discusses on the "On The Line" podcast, is the whole point.

On the latest episode of the podcast, Free Press photojournalist Sarahbeth Maney takes listeners and host Cary Junior II along for a survivor play day in Uvalde, Texas, as students and parents from Oxford High School and Robb Elementary School gather to find connection and joy.

Ahead of the one-year remembrance of the Oxford High School shooting that killed four students, and six months after a school shooting killed 21 people in Uvalde, Touray talks with Junior about why creating such bonds matters and shares a few moments of levity along the way.

"On The Line" is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts.

For more:

On a drizzly Saturday, Oxford and Uvalde survivors unite in joy

Oxford shooting survivor: Leaders have failed to stop school shootings. It's up to us.

Remembering the Oxford victims

Messages of hope to Oxford: 'They will never be forgotten'

Ex-board members: Admitted school shooter should've been sent home — but Oxford H.S. ignored policy

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