Husband of teacher killed in Texas school shooting dies of a heart attack, family says
The husband of one of the two teachers killed in the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, has died, family members announced on Thursday.
Joe Garcia — whose wife, Irma, was slain in Tuesday’s massacre at Robb Elementary School — died of a heart attack on Thursday morning, their relatives said. The couple had been married 24 years and has four children.
Debra Garcia Austin, Irma Garcia’s cousin, has launched a GoFundMe page to raise money for them.
“Please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers,” Austin wrote in a GoFundMe post. “I truly believe Joe died of a broken heart.”
The couple’s nephew John Martinez tweeted that his uncle “passed away due to grief.”
Martinez told the New York Times that Garcia had visited a memorial for his wife on Thursday morning to drop off flowers, and collapsed when he returned home.
Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles, another teacher, died along with 19 children in the shooting — one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
According to her school bio, Irma Garcia was in her 23rd year of teaching at Robb Elementary and had worked in the same fourth-grade classroom as Mireles for five years.
“She would literally do anything for anybody......no questions asked,” Austin wrote of her cousin. “She loved her classroom kids and died trying to protect them.”
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 27, 2022 7:13 PM
|
So much blood on Republican hands.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 26, 2022 10:36 PM
|
Damn this breaks my heart because he literally died of a broken heart.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 26, 2022 10:39 PM
|
[quote] Damn this breaks my heart because he literally died of a broken heart.
I can't even imagine dying because someone else died.
That's a whole other level of attachment.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 26, 2022 10:40 PM
|
I'm waiting for fucking Meghan Markle to go to the family, with the Netflix crew in tow.
Like she did in Uvalde in front of the 'pop-up' memorial for those killed.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 26, 2022 10:43 PM
|
This is just horrible. Those poor kids losing BOTH parents . . .
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 26, 2022 10:44 PM
|
[quote] I'm waiting for fucking Meghan Markle to go to the family, with the Netflix crew in tow.
I'm still waiting for anorexic Kate Middlington to eat something.
Even a cracker. Or a biscuit. Or a cup of tea.
Ugly haggard CUNT.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 26, 2022 10:46 PM
|
Maybe Meghan can bring them some food.
As a mother.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 26, 2022 10:47 PM
|
Maybe Kate can bring them some cigarettes.
As a chain smoker.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 26, 2022 10:48 PM
|
Fuck you, R6 and R8. And now crawl back up Markle's fat ass while she's feigning sadness in front of the memorial.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 26, 2022 10:50 PM
|
Leave it to the British Royals posters to switch a thread and make it all about them! This is why you are all hated here!
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 26, 2022 10:53 PM
|
^ That's because they're selfish assholes... and yes they are very much hated 😠
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 26, 2022 11:11 PM
|
Just like Debbie Reynolds.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 26, 2022 11:13 PM
|
I'm sure Gov Abbott will donate to the gofundme with "thoughts and prayers"
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 26, 2022 11:16 PM
|
Abbott will hand out guns to the orphaned kids since they need to protect themselves now as they're competely on their own now.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 26, 2022 11:18 PM
|
It was sad enough when it was reported that she was found embracing her students.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 26, 2022 11:21 PM
|
God, this whole thing is just horrific.
When will it end?
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 26, 2022 11:53 PM
|
Those teachers must have been very nice women because they got along well enough to share a classroom space for FIVE YEARS. I can't even imagine doing that for a week.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 27, 2022 12:34 AM
|
Unbearably horrific. Their poor kids, losing both parents in the span of a few days. You really can die of a broken heart - it happened to a friend’s sister. Lost her husband suddenly in a motorcycle accident, had a massive stroke and was gone within the month. She was early 50s.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 27, 2022 12:40 AM
|
I think financially, the children will be ok. I imagine the Gofundme will be substantial and the teacher’s pension, perhaps. Who will care for them, who knows. Hopefully there are relatives capable of raising them. What a nightmare.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 27, 2022 12:55 AM
|
This district voted for Trump and has a GOP Rep in Congress.
Until parents start voting these fuckers out of office, nothing will happen.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 27, 2022 12:58 AM
|
Can we all get to a point where an R4 is just put on ignore? You really are mentally fucking ill. How does she even enter your mind? Why, because she went there? How does that affect your life, you pathetic loser.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 27, 2022 12:59 AM
|
What’s the address? Asking for a friend.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 27, 2022 2:03 AM
|
R23 Markle troll - that venal bitch showed up in Uvalde to film a segment for her fucking reality TV show. That goes beyond cringe de la cringe. She's revolting. Making a buck off little kids getting killed. Fuck her.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 27, 2022 2:07 AM
|
R25, yes, I'm a troll. You can count on one hand how many times I've even posted about those people - and every one of my posts is about morons like you who ruin every fucking thread with your obsession. Get a life, you fucking loser.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 27, 2022 2:41 AM
|
I feel bad that their go fund me is so low
. It reminds me of when the rednecks at Memories Pizza got 2 millions dollars donated to them for saying they’d never cater a gay wedding.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 27, 2022 2:44 AM
|
Meghan's got a GoFundMe now? Well, somebody has to pay for that string of polo ponies.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 27, 2022 3:32 AM
|
There are a lot of these sad stories from the shooting.
One of the officers who responded to the scene, found out that his daughter was one of the victims.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 27, 2022 11:26 AM
|
