Communities in Michigan, Texas to honor 2021 Oxford High School victims Thursday

With Thursday marking the second anniversary of the Oxford High School shooting, communities in Michigan and Texas plan to honor victims of the attack with a moment of silence, a social media blackout and a candlelight remembrance.

Oxford Community Schools will hold a moment of silence at 12:51 p.m. — the time the attack began on Nov. 30, 2021 — and is encouraging everyone in Michigan to light a candle or luminary in remembrance at 7 p.m.

Four Oxford High School students were killed in the attack: Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17. Seven others were injured, including a teacher.

School officials closed the district on Thursday in honor of Wildcat Remembrance Day and provided a list of mental health resources for the community on its website.

The Uvalde Foundation For Kids, a Texas-based nonprofit formed following the Uvalde, Texas school shooting in 2022, plans to honor the Oxford victims with a moment of silence and a "blackout" of its social media sites at 6 p.m. Central Time on Thursday from its Dallas headquarters.

Foundation officials also said that Oxford's blue and gold colors will illuminate their Dallas and Los Angeles offices.

"The Uvalde Foundation For Kids stands in solidarity with the resilient community of Oxford. Today we remember the tragic events of that fateful day," founder Daniel Chapin said in a statement.

"Yet, our memories and our ongoing grief can be met with hope that the events which shattered a community and so very many lives also serves as a motivation to do all we can as a local and national community to end the violence which is taking far too many student lives."

The Robb Elementary School shooting killed 19 children and two adults in Uvalde on May 24, 2022, making it the deadliest school shooting in Texas history. The attack occurred six months after Oxford.

Last November, 16 high school seniors from Oxford traveled to Uvalde to meet survivors of the Robb Elementary School shooting. The Oxford students tie-dyed shirts and played soccer and limbo with the younger Uvalde children in the afternoon and evening.

jchambers@detroitnews.com