Reports are surfacing that Joe Garcia, husband of Irma Garcia, one of the two teachers killed in Tuesday's Texas school massacre, has suffered a fatal heart attack. .The husband and wife were high school sweethearts and had been married for 24 years, reports KABB Fox, out of San Antonio. Irma had been teaching for 23 years. .Irma, 46, — a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX — was shot and killed on Tuesday along with fellow teacher Eva Mireles, 44, and 19 students between the ages of eight- and 11-years-old. .Irma and her husband, Joe, leave behind four children. .Irma's nephew posted on Facebook that his aunt "sacrificed herself protecting the kids in her classroom." ."Irma Garcia is her name and she died a hero," he wrote..An 18-year-old gunman shot and killed 19 students and two teachers on Tuesday while barricaded in the Texas fourth-grade elementary school classroom with the children..Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School, was killed by authorities on site at Robb Elementary School during Tuesday's massacre..An investigation continues into what motivated Ramos' shooting rampage as authorities say he had no previous criminal record or reported mental health issues.
Reports are surfacing that Joe Garcia, husband of Irma Garcia, one of the two teachers killed in Tuesday's Texas school massacre, has suffered a fatal heart attack. .The husband and wife were high school sweethearts and had been married for 24 years, reports KABB Fox, out of San Antonio. Irma had been teaching for 23 years. .Irma, 46, — a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX — was shot and killed on Tuesday along with fellow teacher Eva Mireles, 44, and 19 students between the ages of eight- and 11-years-old. .Irma and her husband, Joe, leave behind four children. .Irma's nephew posted on Facebook that his aunt "sacrificed herself protecting the kids in her classroom." ."Irma Garcia is her name and she died a hero," he wrote..An 18-year-old gunman shot and killed 19 students and two teachers on Tuesday while barricaded in the Texas fourth-grade elementary school classroom with the children..Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School, was killed by authorities on site at Robb Elementary School during Tuesday's massacre..An investigation continues into what motivated Ramos' shooting rampage as authorities say he had no previous criminal record or reported mental health issues.
