Gov. Greg Abbott and Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones attended the event, emceed by KSAT anchor Courtney Friedman<\/p>\n
Community members joined together to speak about the dangers of fentanyl at the third annual Fentanyl Walk in San Antonio. (Emilio Sanchez, KSAT 12)<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Hundreds of people gathered for the third annual Soles Walking for Souls event, marking the largest turnout yet for the fentanyl awareness walk.<\/p>\n The event, organized by Angel Moms \u2014 mothers who have lost children to fentanyl poisoning \u2014 served as both a memorial walk and a community resource fair.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have not dreamed in one million years that this would have happened to my kid. That\u2019s why I do what I do because it is so unbelievable,\u201d said Kim Gillihan, who lost her 14-year-old son to fentanyl poisoning.<\/p>\n San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones issued a proclamation with advocates at the third annual Fentanyl Walk on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (KSAT 12)<\/p>\n Gov. Greg Abbott and Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones were in attendance for the event.<\/p>\n Abbott said the record attendance demonstrates growing community concern about fentanyl\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n Gov. Greg Abbott spoke at the third annual Fentanyl Walk in San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (KSAT 12)<\/p>\n Organizers distributed Narcan, a life-saving medication that reverses opioid overdoses, while various community service organizations provided resources to attending families.<\/p>\n Angel Moms continues their local advocacy efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl experimentation among youth.<\/p>\n Angel Moms hosted the third annual Fentanyl Walk in San Antonio on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. KSAT 12 anchor Courtney Friedman, left, was the emcee for the event. (KSAT 12)<\/p>\n Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n Copyright 2025 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n About the Authors<\/p>\n Emilio Sanchez is a KSAT News Photographer from Denver. Sanchez has always had a passion for photography, cherishing the ability to capture moments that can be remembered forever. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n Haley Butler is a journalist and KSAT\u2019s newest production trainee. Haley graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism and a minor in women and gender studies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Greg Abbott and Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones attended the event, emceed by KSAT anchor Courtney Friedman Community…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,24094,7452,5026,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-299152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fentanyl","10":"tag-gina-ortiz-jones","11":"tag-greg-abbott","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115365265012440427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n