A circle of 10 feathers will honor each victims who was killed in the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in 2018. Courtesy of PBK Architects | Edgeland Green space covered with trees will surround the Santa Fe Ten memorial outside the high school building. Courtesy of PBK Architects | Edgeland

The names of each of the eight students and two teachers who died in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting will soon anchor a long-awaited victims' memorial that could stand on campus as soon as May.

Construction crews aim to break ground on the Santa Fe Ten Memorial and Healing Park next March, and they hope to finish building a circle of steel feathers honoring each shooting victim by the tragedy's ninth anniversary on May 18, according to The Trevino Group - a local contractor building the site. The memorial will name each of the 10 victims who were fatally shot when a 17-year-old opened fire at the Galveston County high school and injured 13 others in May 2018.

Victims' families, community leaders and school district personnel have planned the upcoming memorial for years through the Santa Fe Memorial Foundation, the nonprofit formed after the shooting. Santa Fe ISD officials said donations and a $2.7 million state appropriation will fund the project, and contractors have helped make it happen with pro bono service and discounted rates.


That includes The Trevino Group - a 50-year-old Houston construction company that cut its fees for the memorial build. Jeffery Ryall, the company's director of preconstruction who lives in League City, said his coworker lost her son in the shooting.

 This will be by far the most important and personal project I've ever done,  Ryall said.  I've built emergency departments and hospitals that my family has actually stayed in, and so that was pretty personal...but this one is a little different. 

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Once completed, the space will feature a circle of 10 large carbon steel 
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