(Washington) The husband of a teacher killed in Tuesday’s massacre at a Texas elementary school, in which 19 children and another teacher also died, died Thursday of “grief”, family members said .
Posted yesterday at 4:42 p.m.
On the page of a GoFundMe kitty set up to provide for the needs of their four now orphaned children, Debra Austin, who introduces herself as the cousin of the teacher, Irma Garcia, indicates that the latter’s husband, Joe, “tragically died this morning following a medical emergency”.
“I am convinced that Joe died of a broken heart, losing the love of his life after 25 years (of life together, editor’s note) was too difficult to bear”, she adds.
John Martinez, who identifies himself as Irma Garcia’s nephew, tweeted: “It breaks my heart and fills me with despair to announce that my Aunt Irma’s husband, Joe Garcia, has died of sorrow. »
A local TV reporter said Joe Garcia died of a heart attack.
The couple had been married for 24 years, according to the Robb Elementary School website.
Irma Garcia and her colleague Eva Mireles, whose classrooms were connected, were both killed by 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos, who also massacred 19 children at Robb Primary School in Uvalde before being shot. killed by the police.