Maria Ortiz poses for a photograph inside her home on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, in Houston, Texas. Her husband, Erick Ortiz, died of COVID-19 in early December. His family worries he contracted it at Milby High School, where they say the principal ignored social distancing protocols and put more than 20 students in his class to take the PSAT.
The remnants of an aircraft, which caught fire soon after a failed take-off attempt at Houston Executive Airport, can be seen just north of Morton Road on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, in Brookshire, Texas.
Abigail Adams, right, comforts her friend Hannah Hershey, 13, during a vigil for the victims of the Santa Fe High School mass shooting Friday, May 18, 2018, in Santa Fe, Texas. Hershey said she knew one of the 10 people who were killed at the high school earlier that day.
An undocumented migrant is ushered into a bus from the scene of a human smuggling case, where more than 90 undocumented migrants were found inside a home on the 12200 block of Chessington Drive, on Friday, April 30, 2021, in Houston, Texas. A Houston Police official said the case will be handled by federal authorities.
A Contra Costa County firefighter takes a break while crews battled a structure fire on 16th Street on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, in Antioch, Calif.
Two people sunbathe at Discovery Green on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Houston, Texas. County and city officials have extended the stay-at-home order until April 30.
Cameron January looks toward the sky, waiting to release balloons to commemorate what would have been the 46th birthday of Pamela Turner — his mother — after a press conference in which attorney Benjamin Crump announced the filing of a federal lawsuit against Baytown Police officer Juan Delacruz outside the Harris County Civil Courthouse on Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Houston, Texas. Turner was shot and killed on May 13, 2019.
The super blood moon, near full eclipse, seen above the downtown skyline on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, in Houston, Texas.
Inspirational spoken word poet Vascola Stoney poses for a photograph inside Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Houston.
A veteran wipes away tears during the memorial service for Houston Police Sgt Harold Preston at Grace Church Houston on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in Houston, Texas.
Kenya Latour, 38, poses for a photograph inside the Plane State Jail on Thursday, April 11, 2019, in Dayton, Texas. Latour, who used the street name Peaches, started using crack in 2005 and paid for it with "dates" on the Bissonnet Track, where she worked the same corner for a decade. Referring to crack and prostitution she said "I couldn't do one without the other...it went hand in hand for me." She didn't realize she had been raped by two johns until she attended a support group at the Harris County Jail.
Sister Dominica – with Dominican Sisters of Mary Immaculate Province – cheers on the Houston Astros during the first inning of game 6 in the American League Championship Series against the Boston Red Sox at Minute Maid Park on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021, in Houston, Texas.
Trinity Newman blows bubbles along with thousands of people outside City Hall in honor of Maleah Davis, the four-year-old girl who went missing in early May and whose body was found tossed along an Arkansas roadside last week, on Sunday, June 9, 2019, in Houston, Texas. The city declared today "Maleah Davis Day" and people wore pink, her favorite color, in her honor.
Nick Tripp, right, comforts their wife Cristal Solares-Bockmon after paying respects during the memorial service for transgender rights advocate Monica Roberts, 58, at University of Houston’s Cullen Performance Hall on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Houston, Texas.
Rachel Bruce, left, and her daughter Sydney grieve as the Houston Fire Department honors her husband, arson investigator Lemuel Bruce, at a memorial service Lakewood Church on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Houston, Texas. Bruce, 44, died while he was investigating a recent string of fires in northwest Houston. He was following a suspect in a vehicle when he was shot, according to authorities.
Art Solda, 72, left, and his fiancee Tatiana braved the rain to check out the Williams Tower Water Wall on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, in Houston, Texas. The couple was traveling to Savannah, Georgia, where they will be getting married in early February.
Maria de los Angeles Peña kisses a photograph of her son, 23-year-old Rodolfo “Rudy” Peña, while visiting the memorial for Astroworld Festival victims outside NRG Park on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, in Houston, Texas. Her son was one of the victims from the crowd surge at the festival.
Guillermo, 53, waits for his daughter to help him after using the restroom on Saturday, June 29, 2019, in Houston, Texas. He needs help getting around as the cataracts, caused by diabetes, have left him blind and have led to stage two kidney failure over a two-month period.