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GoFundMe for the victim and husband of Uvalde who died of heart attack

A GoFundMe page has been launched to support the family of slain Robb Elementary School teacher Irma Garcia, who was one of 21 victims fatally shot by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas. Garcia’s husband Joe died Thursday morning.

The online fundraiser was started by Garcia’s cousin, Debra Austin, on Wednesday, with a goal of raising $10,000 to help meet family expenses. The GoFundMe page has raised over $217,000 at the time of publication Thursday afternoon.

“Irma was a wife, a mother of 4, a cousin, a sister, a daughter, an aunt and a wonderful person. She would literally do anything for anyone…no questions asked,” Austin said of her cousin on the fundraising page.

“She loved her class children and died trying to protect them. Please donate whatever you can to help her family,” Austin added.

Austin also released an update confirming the teacher’s husband died Thursday morning “as a result of a medical emergency.”

Garcia’s husband reportedly died of a heart attack, according to Ernie Zuniga of KAAB News in San Antonio, who first reported the death.

“Joe Garcia, the husband of Irma Garcia, one of two teachers shot and killed Tuesday in Uvalde, TX, has reportedly suffered a fatal heart attack. Joe and Irma were high school sweethearts and had been married for 24 years. They leave behind four children, “Zunigas tweeted.

“I truly believe that Joe died of a broken heart and that losing the love of his life for more than 25 years was too much to bear,” Austin said.

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Garcia, 46, was one of the two teachers whom Ramos fatally shot Tuesday along with 19 children who were also killed. Ramos died after being shot and killed by police.

Garcia and fellow teacher Eva Mireles, 44, protected the students by standing in front of them to stop Ramos from hitting the children, according to a surviving fourth grader.

The boy said the teachers “went in front of my classmates to help. To save her,” the boy said, recalling harrowing details of what he saw in the classroom where authorities say the gunman had barricaded himself.

A GoFundMe page has been launched to support the family of slain Robb Elementary School teacher Irma Garcia, who was one of 21 victims fatally shot by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas. Pictured above, flowers are laid at a makeshift memorial in front of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 25.
Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images

Ramos entered, “squatted down a little bit and said he said, ‘It’s time to die,'” the student told KENS5, recalling the shooting incident.

The boy and four other students hid under a table with a tablecloth covering them, which may have prevented the shooter from spotting them, the news channel said.

The 18-year-old shot his grandmother before going to elementary school with two AR-15 rifles, which he legally bought for his birthday a few days before the shooting.

Update 5/26/2022 at 4:50pm EDT: This story has been updated with additional information and the latest figures on GoFundMe.

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