Hero teacher Irma Garcia’s husband dies
of a broken heart 2 days after Texas
school shooting
Posted By: vrb8m, 5/26/2022 4:24:17 PM
The grief-stricken husband of a fourth-grade teacher killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre died of a heart attack just two days after the mass shooting, family said on Thursday. Joe Garcia died in the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers — including his wife of 24 years, Irma Garcia, her nephew said on Twitter.
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Hero teacher Irma Garcia’s husband dies
of a broken heart 2 days after Texas
school shooting 6 replies
of a broken heart 2 days after Texas
school shooting 6 replies
The grief-stricken husband of a fourth-grade teacher killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre died of a heart attack just two days after the mass shooting, family said on Thursday.
Joe Garcia died in the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers — including his wife of 24 years, Irma Garcia, her nephew said on Twitter.
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A woman at the home where police had gone in response to reported gunfire also was critically injured, Williams told reporters.
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Kim Potter trial: Minneapolis jury finds ex-police
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officer guilty in death of Daunte Wright 17 replies
The jury has found former Minneapolis-area police Officer Kim Potter guilty of first and second degree manslaughter charges in the April 2021 death of Daunte Wright.
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Tweets In History’ 52 replies
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Former Democrat President Barack Obama faced backlash online Wednesday afternoon after he invoked George Floyd following the school shootings that happened on Tuesday in Texas.Obama’s remarks come after an 18-year-old Latino male stormed Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and opened fire on students, killing at least 19 children, before a nearby U.S. Border Patrol agent rushed into the building and killed the suspect.“As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer,” Obama tweeted. “His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him.”
President Biden revived his frequently ridiculed stage whisper Friday while addressing the US Naval Academy’s Class of 2022, stooping over his microphone to remind them that “I’m your commander-in-chief.” Biden addressed the graduates for approximately 25 minutes during the outdoor ceremony at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, during which he slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin over his three-month-old invasion of Ukraine.(Snip)
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex who now lives in California, has paid tribute to the victims of a school shooting in Texas by visiting a memorial near the site of the massacre.Markle was spotted on Thursday laying a bouquet of white roses at a makeshift memorial outside the Uvalde County Courthouse, not far from the scene of the senseless slayings at Robb Elementary School. As well, she also stopped by an Uvalde community center that is hosting a blood drive, where she toured the facility and donated food, a volunteer there told DailyMail.com. 'She did not want anybody to know who she was,' the person said.
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Yep, there it is, the first reference to cannabis use by Salvador Ramos, the Texas elementary school killer. In the New York Times.
Took 24 hours, give or take.
And Ms. Rodriguez recalled he would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.
This is only one case. Except it’s not.
Nikolas Cruz, the Florida high school shooter, was a heavy user and told the police detective who interviewed him that he heard voices. Devin Patrick Kelley - who shot up a Texas church and killed 26 people in 2017
The mother of the teenager who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, said he 'had his reasons.'Salvador Ramos' mother Adriana Reyes aka Martinez, told CNN in Spanish: 'I have no words. I have no words to say. I don't know what he was thinking.
'He had his reasons for doing what he did and please don't judge him,' she continued.
Reyes also begged for forgiveness for herself and her son after the mass shooting on Tuesday.'I only want the innocent children who died to forgive me. Forgive me, forgive my son. I know he had his reasons.'
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McConnell Pushes GOP to Work With Democrats
on Gun Legislation in Response to Texas
School Shooting 29 replies
on Gun Legislation in Response to Texas
School Shooting 29 replies
In what conservatives will surely label a “sell-out” by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate Minority Leader on Thursday “encouraged” Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) to work with Senate Democrats to “find a consensus on some legislation to respond to the shooting in Texas.”
Translation: Gun-control legislation.
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WATCH: Texas Police Spox on Live TV Confirmed
Cops Went In for Their Own Kids During
Uvalde Shooting 29 replies
Cops Went In for Their Own Kids During
Uvalde Shooting 29 replies
Texas Department Public Safety spokesman Lt. Christopher Olivarez confirmed to a reporter during a live shot that police officers went into Robb Elementary School to get their own children during the massacre.
Amid outrage over reports that frantic families who complained about police inaction during the massacre were held back by police, a clip of a live interview with Olivarez from Tuesday has gone viral.
In the clip, Vanessa Croix of KENS 5 says she’s heard that police went into the school to get their own kids while the shooting was going on, asks Lt. Olivarez about it: