Husband of trainer killed in Texas capturing dies of coronary heart assault 2 days later
Irma Garcia’s household was already reeling from her loss of life within the Texas college capturing that focused her fourth grade classroom and killed her co-teacher and 19 college students.
Then, a mere two days after the assault, her grieving husband collapsed and died at dwelling from a coronary heart assault, a member of the family mentioned.
Joe Garcia, 50, dropped off flowers at his spouse’s memorial Thursday morning in Uvalde, Texas, and returned dwelling, the place he “pretty much just fell over” and died, his nephew John Martinez instructed The New York Times.
Married for twenty-four years, the couple had 4 kids.
Martinez instructed The Detroit Free Press that the household was struggling to know that whereas the couple’s oldest son educated for fight within the Marine Corps, it was his mom who was shot to loss of life.
“Stuff like this should not be happening in schools,” he instructed the newspaper.
The Archdiocese of San Antonio and the Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary confirmed Joe Garcia’s loss of life to The Associated Press. AP was unable to independently attain members of the Garcia household on Thursday.
The motive for the bloodbath — the nation’s deadliest college capturing for the reason that 2012 assault in Newtown, Connecticut — remained beneath investigation, with authorities saying the 18-year-old gunman had no recognized legal or psychological well being historical past.
The rampage rocked a rustic already weary from gun violence and shattered the group of Uvalde, a largely Latino city of some 16,000 individuals about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the Mexican border.
The Garcias cherished to barbecue, 48-year-old Irma wrote in a web-based letter to her college students at Robb Elementary School. She loved listening to music and touring to Concan, a group alongside the Frio River about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Uvalde.
The couple’s oldest youngster, Cristian, is a Marine. The couple’s different son, Jose, attends Texas State University. Their eldest daughter, Lyliana, is a highschool sophomore, whereas her youthful sister is within the seventh grade.
The college yr, scheduled to finish Thursday, was Garcia’s twenty third yr of educating — all of it at Robb. She was beforehand named the college’s trainer of the yr and was a 2019 recipient of the Trinity Prize for Excellence in Education from Trinity University.
For 5 years, Garcia co-taught with Eva Mireles, who was additionally killed.
The suspect, Salvador Ramos, was contained in the classroom for greater than an hour earlier than he was killed in a shootout with legislation enforcement, authorities mentioned.
“Mrs. Irma Garcia was my mentor when I began teaching,” her colleague Allison McCullough wrote when Garcia was named trainer of the yr. “The wealth of knowledge and patience that she showed me was life-changing.”
