UVALDE, Texas — The Robb Elementary shooting investigative committee on Thursday met for a second time — this time in Uvalde.

“We’ll treat this community and the people here with the utmost respect that we possibly can as we go through this and try to provide answers to them,” committee chair Dustin Burrows said.

The committee visited Uvalde listen to witness accounts. Committee chair state Rep. Dustin Burrows is hopeful they’ll uncover the truth.

“Get all the facts and provide them in a way that is transparent to all of Texas and Uvalde,” Burrows said.

There’s still a lot of unanswered questions, three weeks after a gunman took the lives of 19 students and two teachers.

“Our task is to gather the facts,” Judge Eva Guzman said, “so that those families and the people of Texas can know the truth about this horrific event.”

While the committee questioned district leaders and maintenance employees inside City Hall, people continued to pay their respects at the memorial across the street.

“It was impressed upon us, something we needed to do,” said retired veteran Maurice Owens. “Due to the fact of me being a victim of an active shooter in 2009 when I was stationed at Fort Bliss.”

Owens and his family drove in from Fort Hood. He knows better than most of the trauma being shot can cause.

“I was shot six to nine times on the left side of my arm,” Owens said.

Although he survived, he says PTSD is still a struggle. So he knows the shooting is a day those kids won’t forget.

“Kids are going to suffer so much from anxiety and even depression,” Owens said. “I think every parent should put their child in some sort of counseling who was affected by this because it’s going to a long road ahead.”

Maurice appreciates the house committee coming to Uvalde. Because the outcome of their investigation could influence how things are handled in the future.

“Them here in the city of Uvalde doing this timeline is going to be very critical to try to stop these sequence of events happening all over America,” Owens said.

The committee says they would like to present their findings to the legislative body as soon as possible.