13 Investigates the 'betrayal' Uvalde families say they felt after a Houston man went to Uvalde after the shooting and pitched a now-canceled fundraiser.
13 Investigates the "betrayal" Uvalde families say they felt after a Houston man went to Uvalde after the shooting and pitched a now-canceled fundraiser.Berlina Arreola still remembers when tragedy struck the 15,000-person community of Uvalde, in the South Texas Hill Country on May, 24, 2022.
It was then that Uvalde families tell 13 Investigates they met Nathan Kouamou, who is also known as Nathan Baller.Jesse Rizo, whose niece Jackie Cazares died in the school shooting, said Baller "made us feel special."Baller has ties to the City of Houston. During a 2019 city council meeting, he claimed to be a former Houston Dynamo player.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin says Baller arrived in the city less than a week after the shooting and immediately began engaging with city officials and the victims' families. "We are in contact with Drake. We talking, you know, Justin Bieber. We are talking to Bad Bunny," Baller told ABC News. "You just been through hell and so you think, man, how can I go back and change a kid so that they don't create like the shooter, right? So that maybe you can change this direction," Rizo said.Mayor McLaughlin even wrote a letter of support for Baller.
"If we're gonna collect a dime from anybody, we're gonna have control of it. We have to be accountable to the public on that money, and you know, that was a problem for Nathan," McLaughlin said."I told him no, and he pushed for that to happen, and I told him no again, that we're not doing that. That was a red flag," said Patrick Williams, former president of the Uvalde Volunteer Fire Department.
Then came the contract, presented to the families, with terms city officials described as "horrible."
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