Bhubaneswar: Two days after a fourth-grade teacher was shot dead at a school in Texas, her husband has died of a heart attack. Irma Garcia was one of 21 people killed Tuesday by the 18-year-old gunman who walked into the Uvalde, Texas, school with a rifle and began shooting. Nineteen children and Garcia’s co-teacher, Eva Mireles, were also killed.
A GoFundMe page, posted by the teacher Irma Garcia’s cousin, says her husband Joe died Thursday morning of a medical emergency. Cousin Debra Austin wrote: “I truly believe Joe died of a broken heart and losing the love of his life of more than 25 years was too much to bear.”
Two days after Garcia’s death, her husband, Joe, suffered a fatal heart attack. The couple’s family says he died of a broken heart.
Garcia’s nephew expressed his grief on Twitter: “Lord god please on our family, my tias (aunt) husband passed away this morning due to a heart attack at home he’s with his wife now, these two will make anyone feel loved no matter what they have the purest hearts ever I love you sm tia and tio (uncle) please be with me every step of the way.”
Her cousin further wrote: “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 anybody… no questions asked. She loved her classroom kids and died trying to protect them.”
