The gleaming Oscar sat nestled in a row of teddy bears on Jackie Cazares’ bed — a one-of-a-kind keepsake in a room her parents have left largely untouched since the 9-year-old died in the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Beneath purple string lights on the ceiling, the golden statuette shared space with ordinary reminders of Jackie’s life. Across the room, a Ferrero Rocher and a brush tangled with strands of her dark hair remained on the dresser, where she left them four years ago.
The Oscar was for “All the Empty Rooms,” a documentary film that takes viewers inside the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. Jackie’s family was one of four featured in the film.
Conall Jones, a producer on the film, was traveling to Texas this spring and gave the Oscar to the Cazares family to keep for a week as a tribute to the girl they lost.
The family made the most of the Oscar’s visit. Photos obtained by CNN, and published here for the first time, show the statuette making the rounds of places honoring Jackie. One shows the Oscar standing beside her dark granite gravestone. Another shows her mother, Gloria Cazares, holding it up beside Jackie’s mural. A third shows Jackie’s godfather, Manuel Rizo, cradling it over his heart.
