11-Year-Old Started ‘El Paso Challenge’ to Encourage Kindness After Mass Shooting

Ruben Martinez, 11, has a challenge for El Paso residents that he hopes will help them heal after the Walmart shooting. Courtesy Rose Gandarilla

An 11-year-old was so impacted by the El Paso shooting where 22 people lost their lives that he decided to not move out of his home. Prodded and encouraged by his mother he came up with El Paso Challange that’s now encouraging people to do good deeds for others.

Sixth-grader Ruben Martinez is a “loving and caring child” and the tragedy of El Paso shooting saddened him so much that he didn’t want to move out of his home in Texas.