Jacklyn Cazares hadn’t turned 10 yet, but she she was an “explosive” and stubborn that she was always looking to help people in need, according to her father. Jacklyn and her second cousin Annabelle Rodriguez were very good friends along with three other classmates at Robb Elementary School.
“Now they are all dead,&rdquo ; Javier Cazares said. “All her best friends were also murdered.”
The girls were among 19 students who died Tuesday when an 18-year-old man barricaded himself in the street. in a 4th grade classroom at the school in the town of Uvalde, in southwest Texas, and began to To shoot. His families can only hold on to the memories, and each other.
Jacklyn would have been 10 on June 10. Despite her young age, she was equal parts tenacious and compassionate.
“He had his own voice,” his father. “He didn’t like bullies, he didn’t like kids being bullied. She was full of love. She had a big heart”.
“She was quite a character, a little beast”, she added. her daughter to school on Tuesday; He had an award ceremony that morning. About 90 minutes later, the family received a call: An active shooter was at the school.
“I drove like hell,” he commented. “My baby he was in danger”.
“There were more than 100 people waiting, it was chaos” about the scene at school. He grew impatient. He spoke with the response of the police and even raised the question. the idea of entering the school on his own with several other bystanders.
Cazares said that his niece continued to an ambulance to the hospital and saw that Jacklyn was being carried on board. The whole family soon joined him. and pressed He called on hospital employees for briefings for nearly three hours. They begged, cried, and showed them pictures of their daughter. Finally a pastor, a police officer, and a doctor joined them.
“My wife asked the question, ‘ alive or died?’” hunt. “They replied: “No, she is dead.”
Cazares fought back tears as he reflected on how long his daughter was in the classroom with the assailant before he died. It comforts him to believe that in her last moments, Jacklyn was doing what came naturally to her: helping her teammates.
“It warms our hearts that she is one of those he was brave and tried to help as much as she could & rdquo ;, she commented.
Ryan Ramirez also rushed over. to get to Robb Elementary when he found out about it. of the shooting, hoping to find her daughter Alithia and take her home, reported & gué; KTRK-TV. But Alithia was also one of the victims.
On Ramirez’s Facebook profile there is a photo, which has now become known throughout the world, in which the little girl appears wearing a multi-colored shirt announcing that she had ceased to be “ single digit” after turning 10 years old. The same picture was posted again on Wednesday without a message, but Alithia had angel wings.
The pain only increased. on Thursday after it was confirmed that the husband of one of the murdered teachers, Irma Garcia, had died.
Funeral home Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary confirmed. the death of Joe Garcia, but did not disclose the cause or when he had died. The couple had four children.
“Please pray for our family; God, have mercy on us; this is not easy” John Martinez, a nephew of the couple, on the death of Joe Garcia.
Irma Garcia, 48, had been teaching for 23 years, according to the obituary of her, and five of them taught them & gué; along with Eva Mireles, who also lost. life in the gunfight.
In a post on the school website at the beginning of the school year to introduce herself to her students, Irma Garcia wrote: that she liked barbecues, listening to music and taking trips to the nearby town of Concan.
Mireles also published He was on site at the start of classes, noting that he had been teaching for 17 years. He mentioned to his “supportive, fun and loving family.
“¡Welcome to 4th grade! We have a fantastic year ahead!”, he wrote.
Two of the little victims had wanted to skip school on Tuesday.
Carmelo Quiroz’s grandson, Jayce Luevanos, 10, had begged to go with his grandmother on Tuesday when she accompanied him. to his great-granddaughter’s preschool class to the San Antonio Zoo. But, he counted Quiroz, the family told Jayce there was no point in skipping school so close to the end of the year. Also, Jayce liked school.
“Thats why my wife hurts so much, because he wanted to go to San Antonio,” Quiroz to USA Today. “She was very sad that she couldn’t go. Maybe if she had gone, she would be here.”
Another victim who also did not want to go to school that day was Jayce’s cousin, 10-year-old Jailah Nicole Silguero. Jailah’s mother, Veronica Luevanos, told tearfully told the Univision network that the little girl seemed to sense that something bad was going to happen.
Jailah’s friend, Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo, also lost her life. life, and her aunt commented on it. that the first name is “Heaven” (Heaven) spelled backwards. In a Facebook post, Yvonne White called Nevaeh and Jailah “Our Angels.”
Two men who responded to the shooting found their own children among the victims.
Felix Rubio, an officer with the Uvalde County Police Department, and his wife had been at the school Tuesday morning to celebrate with their daughter, Alexandria “Lexi” Aniyah, age 10, because the 4th grader was on the honor roll after getting good grades, and she also received an honor roll. She received a good citizen award.
In a Facebook post, Kimberly Rubio wrote: “We told her we loved her and would pick her up after school. We had no idea this was a farewell.
Physician assistant Angel Garza He rushed to school and immediately found his friend. He spotted a girl covered in blood among the terrified children streaming out of the building.
“I am not hurt. he shot him My best friend”, the girl told Garza when he offered to give her a call. help her. “It is not breathing. She was trying to call the police.”
Her friend was Amerie Jo Garza, Angel Garza’s stepdaughter.
Amerie was a happy girl who was in the frame honors and loved to paint, draw and work with clay. “She was very creative,” her grandmother Dora Mendoza. “She was my baby. Whenever I saw flowers, I drew them.”
Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home, in front of the school, began to publish some obituaries of the victims. He was helping the families of the victims by offering his services free of charge. GoFundMe pages were created for many of the victims, including one on behalf of all the victims that has raised more than $3 million.