The family of teacher Irma Garcia, who was murdered, announced Teenager shooting at an elementary school In Texas, her husband died of grief for her, two days after the massacre.
Garcia was a fourth-grade teacher who was murdered protecting students from the killer at a Texas school in which a teen killed 19 young students and two adults.
Broken heart
“Very heartbreaking and with deep sadness, Tia Irma’s husband has passed away due to grief,” wrote a relative on Twitter who identified himself as Garcia’s nephew on Thursday. “I am really at a loss and there are no words to express what we all feel, according to the American newspaper, The Daily Beast.
On GoFundMe the story was shared online by Garcia’s family, and her cousin Debra Garcia wrote that “Joe passed away Thursday morning” as a result of a medical emergency.
EXTREMELY heartbreaking and come with deep sorrow to say that my Tia Irma’s husband Joe Garcia has passed away due to grief, i truly am at a loss for words for how we are all feeling, PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY, God have mercy on us, this isn’t easy pic.twitter.com/GlUSOutRVV
— john martinez ❤️???? (@fuhknjo) May 26, 2022
She added, “I really think Joe died of a broken heart and losing the love of his life for more than 30 years was unbearable.”
19 kids and 2 teachers
Irma and Joe have been married for 24 years and left behind four children, according to a Garcia biography on the Yuvaldi School District website in Texas.
The death toll is still set to rise in the mass shooting at an elementary school in Ovaldi, Texas, that occurred on Tuesday.
But it has already become the second deadliest shooting in an elementary school, middle school or high school on record in the United States, according to the American newspaper, “The New York Times.”
AndAt least 19 students and two adults were killed In the attack, according to police, who said they shot and later killed the gunman, whose name they identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, a student at a nearby high school who had struggled with social problems in his life.