Axios reports 14 of the 21 victims — 19 kids and two of their teachers — have been identified so far. The victims were all in the same classroom, law enforcement said.
Eliahna Garcia, 10, loved to sing, dance and play basketball, AP reports.
Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares, 10, “had the biggest heart,” her father, Jacinto Cazares, told ABC 7.
Jose Flores Jr. was a fourth grader who loved baseball and video games.
Uziyah Garcia, 8, was “the sweetest little boy that I’ve ever known,” his grandfather said, per AP.
Alithia Ramirez, 10, wanted to be an artist, her father told a local NBC affiliate. She’d submitted an entry to the Doodle for Google contest.
Amerie Jo Garza, 10, was “full of life, a jokester, always smiling,” her father told the N.Y. Times.
Xavier Javier Lopez, 10, was a “bubbly” boy who loved to dance with his brothers and mom and was anxiously awaiting a summer of swimming.
Rojelio Torres, 10, “was a very intelligent, hard-working and helpful person,†his aunt said.
Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10, was in the same classroom as her cousin, who was also killed in the shooting, her family said.
Eliahana Cruz Torres, 10, had been eagerly awaiting her last softball game of the season on Tuesday, her family told a local CBS affiliate.
Jailah Silguero loved to dance and had started to imitate TikTok videos, her grandmother told The Daily Beast.
Jayce Carmelo Luevanos was Jailah’s cousin and loved making people laugh.
Irma Garcia, a teacher for 23 years, loved to barbecue with her husband and listen to music. She was a mom of four.
Eva Mireles was a teacher for 17 years. She loved to run and hike and her “laughter was contagious,” relative Amber Ybarra told AP and NBC’s “Today” show.
Yes Chip Roy is a representative from you guessed it, Texas even though he sounds as bad as if he is from Florida.
Here is the bit from BusinessInsider from July 7th 2021
“A GOP congressman from Texas said in a secretly taped video that he supported blocking Democrats with “18 more months of chaos” so that Republicans would have a shot at reclaiming Congress in the 2022 midterm elections.
“For the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow all of that down to get to December of 2022 and then get in here and lead,” Rep. Chip Roy said in a video taped by Lauren Windsor, a Democratic activist.
He added: “Nobody knows what anybody’s gonna do right now. That’s the thing; this is the problem. I actually say, ‘Thank you, Lord, 18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done.’ That’s what we want.””
How many rights will be taken by how many wrongs from people who say the quiet part out loud “We have to cheat, steal, obstruct and destroy democracy to ‘win'”.
Ginnie Thomas was actually cult deprogrammed long ago but it it appears that deprogramming may not stick for long.
The husband of one of the slain teachers died of a heart attack leaving four children so chalk up one more death in Uvalde towards their “18 MORE months of chaos”
Yup Yup, the NRA convention in Houston tomorrow will be weapon free and probably fruit and veg free because chaos?
The very fact that children across America have active shooter drills that can’t protect from AR-15’s tells me that the chaos wished for by the republic of evil bots foisted upon us and those who need the most protection are the GOP’s expendable acceptable loss.
Something has to change.
NOW.
It’s no secret that republican “leadership” and their billionaire donors have made a pact to inculcate their “18 months of chaos” plan leading up to the midterms. And that they consider any amount and type of mayhem, however irreparable–even on a global level–to their political benefit.
Watching the republic of evil bots regurgitate their talking points and whataboutisms to further brainwash their base that red flag laws and background checks won’t do a bit of good–to be clear, that is staring into the depths of the most depraved and sadistic impulses that human beings can fall prey to.
That is not figurative language. They are intent on destroying our democracy to seize autocratic power, and just fine with losing dozens of innocent people including innocent babies in the classroom and their teachers, if they can only spin it to keep their lunatic base in a frenzy leading up to November.
80% of the country wants *some* form of gun control, *including* those of us who own firearms and value the second amendment for what it really is. 60% support red flag laws. And yet the 20% who want more guns and chaos on the street manage to self-victimize that their values are the ones being attacked. Freedom to by an assault rifle as a mentally ill 18 year old and blow up a school! I’m sure Ted Cruz already has his exit strategies for when the shit he stirs gets a little too hot for his own family and his own precious hide.
Welcome to government by a renegade, extremist, and authoritarian minority setting up the most despicable human beings in politics as the golden calves for their base to slobber over and cower under as they drum up dangerous culture wars, meanwhile passing laws to control commerce, communication, utilities, and property. That scenario is otherwise known as fascism, and when it happens, it happens quick. Don’t look now–don’t look up!–because we’re already there.