ITV News Correspondent Geraint Vincent has the latest news on the Texas school shooting
The husband of a teacher killed in the Uvalde school shooting has died of a heart attack two days after the massacre, a relative said.
Irma Garcia, her co-teacher Eva Mireles, and 19 students were shot dead by an 18-year-old gunman in her fourth-grade class on Tuesday.
Joe Garcia, 50, died just hours after leaving flowers at his wife’s memorial on Thursday morning. When he returned home, “he almost fell,” his nephew John Martinez told The New York Times.
Child lovers had four children and had been married for 25 years.
“Things like this shouldn’t happen in schools,” Martinez told The Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Garcia’s cousin, Debra Austin, said she was “devastated” to report Irma’s husband’s death “as a result of a medical emergency.”
“Please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers. I really think Joe died with a broken heart and losing the love of his life for over 25 years was too much to bear,” he wrote in the GoFundMe page created by the family. which has raised more than $ 1 million. “
Ms Austin said Ms Garcia “would literally do anything for anyone … without asking any questions”.
“She loved her classmates and died trying to protect them.”
The couple’s eldest son, Cristian, is a sailor while his other son, Jose, goes to Texas State University. Her eldest daughter, Lyliana, is a sophomore, and her younger sister is in seventh grade.
Mrs. Garcia had been teaching for 23 years at Robb Elementary School and was previously named the school’s teacher of the year.
21 people, including 19 children and two teachers, were killed in the shooting at the school.
The tragedy has once again opened the debate on gun ownership in the US. Questions have been asked about how long it took the police to get to the scene and confront the gunman, and the apparent failure to close the door of the school where he entered. The suspect, Salvador Ramos, was in the classroom for more than an hour before being killed. in a shootout with police, authorities said.
Texas Department of Homeland Security spokesman Travis Considine said Ramos entered Robb Elementary School and began rioting at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday.
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A Border Patrol tactical unit began attempting to enter an hour later, and at 12:58 p.m., a radio talk signal indicated that he was dead.
The time that has elapsed has aroused anger and questions among relatives, who have demanded to know why they did not assault the place and have stopped the tumult more quickly.
Gun control in the United States is largely based on political lines. Among the response silenced in the wake of the tragedy by Republicans, who have traditionally opposed gun control, is the weapons of teachers. But Democrats have strongly opposed arming teachers, saying money for extra security in schools is not enough.