They raise 2.7 million dollars for the family of Irma García, the teacher killed in the shooting in Texas

An online donation campaign has raised 2.7 million dollars for the family of Irma García, one of the two teachers killed in the Tuesday shooting in Uvalde (Texas, United States) and whose husband died two days later of a heart attack.

The microfinance campaign in gofundme was launched on Thursday by Debra Austin, a cousin of the deceased teacher, Irma Garcia.

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Thursday was the same day Garcia’s husband, Joe Garcia, died of a heart attack, an event family members attribute directly to the heartbreak he suffered over his wife’s death.

The García couple had four children together, to whom the funds raised will be allocated.

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Initially, the goal of the campaign was to raise $10,000a 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 his family.”wrote the cousin of the deceased teacher in gofundme.

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Describing Joe’s death two days after Irma’s, the text says Joe died “of a broken heart having lost the love of his life for over 25 years.”

Tuesday morning, Salvador Ramos18, entered armed with a rifle into the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in which he killed 19 children – mostly 10 years old – and two teachers, one of them, García.

Ramos was shot by the Police more than an hour after entering the school.

Source: Elcomercio

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