joe garciathe husband of Irma Garciaone of the teachers killed in the shooting at a school in Texasdied this Thursday following suffering a heart attack, his relatives and local media reported
One of the teacher’s nephews, John Martinez, announced on Twitter that Joe Garcia has died “of grief.”
He remembered that his uncles fell in love when they were in high school and that they leave four children – 23, 19, 15 and 13 years old – orphans.
The Fox26 television station in Houston, citing relatives, said that joe garcia he died of a heart attack.
Irma Garcia She is one of two teachers who died in the Tuesday school shooting from the Texas town of Uvalde, where 19 children also lost their lives.
The teacher had been teaching at Robb Elementary School for 23 years, where the massacre took place and, according to her son Christian García, who spoke to NBC on Wednesday, she became a human shield to protect her students during the shooting.
Two days ago, an 18-year-old Salvador Ramosentered Robb Elementary School with a rifle and opened fire inside, before being shot dead by security forces.
Criticism of police response to massacre in Texas
Witnesses to the shooting at a school in Texas They questioned the police response on Thursday. Parents of the victims assured that they unsuccessfully begged the agents to enter the building and stop the massacre.
While the city of Uvalde mourned the death of 19 children and two teachers in America’s last mass shootingJacinto Cazares, whose daughter Jacklyn was killed in Tuesday’s attack, said he ran to Robb Elementary School when he heard regarding the shooting.
“There were at least 40 law enforcement officers armed to the teeth, but they didn’t do anything until it was too late,” Cazares told ABC News on Wednesday night, joining other parents who said they urged police to act swiftly. more diligence in the face of America’s worst school shooting in a decade.
“The situation might have been over quickly if they had had better tactical training, and we as a community witnessed it firsthand,” Cazares said. (With information from EFE and AFP)
