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Eliahana Cruz Torres, one of the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. ELIAHANA TORRES FAMILY / Reuters
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Jose Flores, one of the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. FAMILY OF JOSÉ FLORES / Reuters
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One student was an avid runner, so fast that she swept the races on field day. Another was learning football plays from his grandfather. One girl sensed that something was wrong and wanted to skip school.
On Wednesday, stories began to emerge about the lives of 19 children, “lovely individuals,” according to the school district superintendent, and their two teachers who were shot in the balance behind a barricaded door at Robb Elementary School. in the town of Uvalde, southwest Texas.
Vincent Salazar said his 10-year-old daughter, Layla, loved swimming and dancing with Tik Tok videos. She was quick: she won six races on the school field day, and Salazar proudly posted a photo of Layla showing two of her tapes on Facebook.
Every morning, as he drove her to school in his truck, Salazar played Sweet Child O ‘Mineof Guns N ‘Roses and they would sing, he said.
“She was a lot of fun,” he said.
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Manny Renfro lost his 8-year-old grandson, Uziyah Garcia, in the shooting.
“The sweetest kid I’ve ever met,” Renfro said. “I don’t say that just because he was my grandson.”
Renfro said Uziyah last visited him in San Angelo during the spring break. “We started throwing football together and I was teaching him passing patterns. A kid so fast and he could catch a ball so well, “Renfro said.” There were certain works that I would call him that he would remember and that he would do exactly as we practiced. “
Javier Cazares said he learned Tuesday afternoon that his 9-year-old daughter Jacklyn Cazares had been murdered in her classroom. He was with a group of five girls, including his second cousin, Annabelle Rodriguez, who formed a group of friends.
“Now they’re all gone,” Cazares said.
The extended families of the murdered cousins gathered Wednesday to mourn and comfort each other over a barbecue.
Cazares described his daughter as a “firecracker” who “had a voice, she didn’t like bullies, she didn’t like being hooked on children.”
“It simply came to our notice then. He had a big heart, “he said.
Veronica Luevanos, whose 10-year-old daughter Jailah Nicole Silguero was among the victims, told Univision in tears that her daughter did not want to go to school on Tuesday and seemed to sense that something bad was going to happen. Jailah’s cousin also died in the shooting.
All of the dead were in the same fourth-grade classroom, where the shooter barricaded himself on Tuesday and opened fire on children and their teachers, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told a news conference Wednesday. He said the gunman used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle in the attack and sent a private message to Facebook shortly before the shooting: “I’m going to shoot at an elementary school.”
Houston community members sing “This Little Light Of Mine” during a Tuesday night vigil following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where at least 19 students and two adults were killed.
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Superintendent of Schools Hal Harrell fought back tears as he talked about the children and their teachers.
“You can tell by their angelic smiles that they were loved,” Harrell said of the children. “That they liked coming to school, that they were beautiful people.”
The two teachers “poured heart and soul” into their work, Harrell said.
Professor Eva Mireles, 44, was remembered as a loving mother and wife. “She was adventurous. She will definitely miss her,” said Amber Ybarra, a 34-year-old relative from San Antonio.
In a post on the school’s website at the beginning of the school year, Mireles introduced herself to her new students.
“Welcome to 4th grade! We have a wonderful year ahead of us! ” he wrote, noting that he had been teaching for 17 years, loved to run and hike, and had a “supportive, fun, and loving family.” She mentioned that her husband was a school district police officer and that they had an older daughter and three “furry friends.”
Mireyah Chavez, a 10-year-old middle school student from Robb Elementary School who was present during the shooting, consoled himself during a prayer vigil at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde, Texas on May 24. Christopher Lee / The New York Times News Service
The other murdered teacher, Irma Garcia, wrote about her four children, including one who was in the Marines, in a letter to introduce herself to the class. Garcia’s 21-year-old nephew, John Martinez, told the Detroit Free Press that the family was struggling to understand that while Garcia’s son was training for combat, it was his mother who was shot dead.
Eliahna Garcia’s 10-year-old relatives recalled her love for the family.
“She was very happy and very outgoing,” said Eliahna’s aunt, Syria Arizmendi, a fifth-grade teacher at Flores Elementary School in the same district. “He liked to dance and play sports. He was very familiar, he liked being with his family. “
Lisa Garza, 54, of Arlington, Texas, mourned the death of her 10-year-old cousin, Xavier Javier López, who was looking forward to a summer of swimming.
“He was just a loving boy … who just enjoyed life, not knowing that this tragedy would happen,” he said. “She was very bubbly, she loved to dance with her siblings, her mother. That just happened to all of us. “
He lamented what he described as lax weapons laws.
“We should have more restrictions, especially if these children are not in the right mood and all they want to do is hurt people, especially innocent children who go to school,” Garza said.
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