Texas Business Made Personalized Caskets For Uvalde Shooting Victims Free Of Charge

A Texas-based custom coffin maker is donating 19 free caskets worth upwards of $3,000 each to the victims of the state's most recent school shooting.

Trey Ganem, the owner of SoulShine Industries, offered his services to the families of the victims for free following Tuesday's massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, BuzzFeed News reported.

An 18-year-old local, Salvador Ramos, killed 19 children and two teachers that day before he was fatally shot by authorities.

Ganem, whose company designs coffins, said he met with the families of 19 of the victims — 18 children and one teacher — Wednesday and Thursday, the New York Post reported.

"I was called by a few people who needed caskets urgently, and the whole thing really tore me up so I decided to help," the 50-year-old star of the A&E reality show "Trey: the Texas Medium" said.

Ganem started designing the coffins Friday and worked around the clock to complete the caskets, which were manufactured at the Cherokee Casket Company in Georgia.

He usually managed the shop with just his son, Billy Ganem, but as many as a dozen people volunteered to help paint, sand and apply vinyl to the custom coffins.

They have now prepared a casket for each of the deceased children except one, as well as a fourth-grade teacher who was gunned down in her classroom, Eva Mireles.

Their designs were based on requests made by the families, but the Ganems tried to get a sense of the victims' interests if there was no specific request.

The coffins, which usually cost between $3,400 and $3,800, featured dinosaurs, butterflies, softball and scenes from TikTok videos.

"We’re here to try to make a hard time a little easier. There’s nothing we can really ever do to make it easier, but that’s our goal: to help the families… start their grieving and their healing and just try to make something special for them," Billy was quoted as saying by BuzzFeed News.

Eight of the caskets were being delivered to Uvalde as of Saturday, while the rest were scheduled to arrive by Sunday.

The experience has made Trey feel like he has "become a part" of the victim's families, he said.

"It has been an extremely emotional roller coaster for me. I don't even know if you can hear my voice. I haven't hollered at all, but I'm losing my voice, for whatever reason," said Trey, who also made coffins for the 26 people killed in the Sutherlands Spring Church shooting in Texas in 2017.