The daddy of Robb Fundamental Faculty capturing sufferer Amerie Jo Garza recounted the devastating manner he found out his daughter used to be amongst the ones killed.
Angel Garza, Amerie’s father, defined to CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he used to be responding to the aftermath of the Uvalde, Texas, capturing as a clinical aide when he started attending to a woman “lined in blood, head to toe.”
“I assumed she used to be injured, I requested her what used to be fallacious and he or she mentioned she’s OK,” Garza informed Cooper. “She used to be hysterical, pronouncing that they shot her perfect buddy, that they killed her perfect buddy, she’s now not respiring and he or she used to be seeking to name the police officers.”
Garza mentioned he requested the younger lady for her buddy’s identify. “She informed me, she mentioned Amerie,” he mentioned, sooner than breaking down and weeping on air.
“She used to be so candy, Mr. Cooper,” a grief-stricken Garza mentioned after an emotional pause through which he hugged a framed photograph of his daughter. “She used to be the sweetest little lady who did not anything fallacious. She listened to her mum and dad, she at all times brushed her tooth, she used to be inventive, she made issues for us, she by no means were given in hassle in class.”
“I simply need to know what she did to be a sufferer,” mentioned Garza as he persisted to sob.
On Tuesday, Texas skilled the deadliest faculty capturing in its historical past when a gunman opened hearth in an fundamental faculty in Uvalde, killing no less than 19 youngsters, together with Amerie.
The fourth grader’s ultimate moments have been not anything wanting heroic. Amerie’s grandmother, Berlinda Arreola informed The Day by day Beast the coed attempted to name 911 on her cell phone sooner than the 18-year-old gunman killed her.
“And as an alternative of grabbing it and breaking it or taking it from her, he shot her,” Arreola mentioned. “She used to be sitting proper subsequent to her perfect buddy. Her perfect buddy used to be lined in her blood.”
Amerie had simply celebrated her birthday on Would possibly 10, Garza informed Cooper. The telephone used to be a birthday present.
“She’d been short of a telephone for see you later and we in the end were given it for her,” Garza mentioned, then started to cry once more. Garza mentioned different scholars in the school room showed that Amerie used to be seeking to name the police.
“She simply attempted to name the police … and I assume he simply shot her,” he mentioned via tears.
Garza paused and squeezed his photograph of Amerie.
“How do you have a look at this lady and shoot her?” he mentioned.