An online donation campaign has raised 2.7 million dollars for the family of one of the two teachers killed in Tuesday’s shooting in Uvalde (Texas, USA) and whose husband died two days later of a heart attack.
The Gofundme microfinancing campaign was launched on Thursday by Debra Austin, cousin of the deceased teacher, Irma García.
Thursday was the same day that Garcia’s husband, Joe Garcia, died of a heart attack, an event that family members directly attribute to the desolation he suffered from the death of his wife.
The García couple had four children together, to whom the funds raised will be allocated.
Initially, the goal of the campaign was to raise $10, dollars, a figure that was exceeded in a few minutes and that has multiplied exponentially to $2.7 million on Monday morning.
“Irma loved the children in her class and died trying to protect them. Please donate what you can to help her family,” the late teacher’s cousin wrote on gofundme.
Describing Joe’s death two days after Irma’s, the text assures that he died “of a broken heart having lost the love of his life for more than 19 years”.
On Tuesday morning, Salvador Ramos, 18 years old, armed with a rifle entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde (Texas), in which he killed 19 children – most of whom were 10 years old – and two teachers, one of them, García.
Ramos was shot by the Police more than an hour after entering the school.
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