Joe Garcia

The husband of a schoolteacher murdered in the Texas school shooting paid tribute to the dead just hours before dying of a heart attack.

‘I don’t know how to do this life without you, but I will take care of dad,’ Ms Mireles’ daughter wrote. Just hours after paying tribute to the dead, Mr Garcia himself died of a heart attack — with relatives saying the anguish of his wife being murdered causing his cardiac arrest. The husband of a schoolteacher murdered in the Texas school shooting laid flowers at a memorial for the dead just hours before dying of a heart attack.

Messages are written on a cross Thursday honoring Irma Garcia, a teacher who was killed in this week's elementary school shooting, in Uvalde, Texas. Fourth- ...

“The wealth of knowledge and patience that she showed me was life changing.” Married for 24 years, the couple shared four children. The school year, scheduled to end Thursday, was Irma’s 23rd year of teaching — all of it at Robb Elementary School. She had been previously named the school’s teacher of the year and was a 2019 recipient of the Trinity Prize for Excellence in Education from Trinity University. “It’s wrong. Two days later, a family member says her brokenhearted husband died. The Garcias loved to barbecue, 48-year-old Irma wrote in an online letter to her students at Robb Elementary. Irma enjoyed listening to music and taking country cruises to Concan, a community along the Frio River about 25 miles north of Uvalde.

Joe Garcia, 50, died hours after leaving flowers at a memorial for his wife outside the school where she was killed along with 19 children and another ...

But Democrats have adamantly opposed arming teachers, and they say money for addition security in schools is not enough. Gun control in the US is largely drawn along political lines. "Please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers. Joe Garcia, 50, died just hours after leaving flowers at his wife's memorial on Thursday morning. The tragedy has once again opened the debate into gun ownership in the US. Questions have been asked about the time it took police to reach the scene and confront the gunman, and the apparent failure to lock a school door he entered.The suspect, Salvador Ramos, was inside the classroom for more than an hour before he was killed in a shootout with police, authorities said. The husband of a teacher killed in the Uvalde school shooting has died from a heart attack two days after the attack, a family member has said.