Amerie stayed behind with her teachers and friends. The girl was disappointed, her grandmother would later tell relatives. "No hija, I have to work,” Mendoza replied. Amerie asked her grandmother if she could leave school early and spend time with her.
Hours later, with some parents and grandparents in attendance at Robb Elementary, the beaming girl proudly had her picture taken with her “A and B Honor Roll certificate." Her relatives began going their separate ways. "And that was the last time I spoke to her." Are you going to pick me up today?'" he said. So she turned it down to zero before getting out of the car.” I’m always jamming out, and she gets so embarrassed. “Like always, she asked me for a dollar to get snacks at lunch,” Garza said. On Tuesday, after a quick breakfast, she grabbed her new cellphone – a gift for her birthday – and got a ride to school from her stepdad on his way to work. Law enforcement, and other first responders, gather outside Robb Elementary School following a shooting, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. With both sets of parents working and juggling custody visits, Amerie spent more time with "Ganny" Grandma Dora than anyone.Ī week or two ago, Amerie moved back in with her mother, Kimberly Garcia, and stepfather, Angel Garza, to a small house on Villa Street, just a few hundred yards from the school. Mendoza, a manager at the nearby Stripes convenience store, had long doted on the little girl, whom she treated as her own daughter.
With her parents split up and living out of town, Amerie had spent the past few years living with her maternal grandmother, Dora Mendoza, on Nopal Street just a few miles from the school. “She was a real happy little girl, always laughing and smiling and playing around,” her grandfather, Alfred Garza Jr., told USA TODAY. Amerie knew she probably would be recognized for another year of good grades. But more important, the students in Eva Mireles’ and Irma Garcia’s fourth grade class were having an honor roll ceremony. It would be the third-to-last day of school before the long summer break. Amerie Jo Garza, 10, dressed up in a favorite white print top, pink nail polish, gold earrings and swept her long black hair back in a ponytail. Tuesday was going to be a special day at Robb Elementary School. "There is no excuse for that." 'A real happy little girl' "With the benefit of hindsight, of course, it was the wrong decision," a shaken McCraw told reporters Friday, adding that an investigation would try to determine how many died while 19 officers waited in a hallway outside the locked classroom doors where Ramos continued shooting. What joins Uvalde to places like Stockton, California Jonesboro, Arkansas Littleton, Colorado Red Lake, Minnesota Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania Blacksburg, Virginia Newtown, Connecticut and Parkland, Florida during the past quarter century of campus attacks is a timeline charting a deadly collision between attacker and unsuspecting victims.īut what has now cast a further pall over this small Texas community is an acknowledged catastrophic failure by law enforcement not to immediately storm adjoining classrooms that a heavily armed Salvador Ramos had transformed into a killing field, even as terrified students inside placed repeated 911 calls pleading for help and frantic parents outside begged officers to let them by to save their children.ĭirector of Department of Public Safety Steven McCraw arrives to give a press conference in front of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 27, 2022. Until Tuesday, Uvalde’s brush with the national spotlight was largely confined to its most famous resident: John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner, a onetime speaker of the House and vice president to Franklin Roosevelt whose resting place is not far from a ribbon of Highway 90 that cuts a well-traveled path between San Antonio and the Mexican border.īefore sunset, Uvalde had joined a growing list of communities now infamous after its innocence was buried forever by another mass shooting in America.
People leave the Uvalde Civic Center following a shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.
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