"Daniela and Sofia will not be forgotten. Hug your children and tell them you love them," laments your school.

Parents who went with their children to exchange birthday presents were killed by bullets from a neo-Nazi extremist; only one of the children survived. Aishwarya Thatikonda, 27, was an engineer working in Dallas after completing a master's degree at Eastern Michigan University in 2020, according to her LinkedIn profile. Christian LaCour, a 20-year-old who worked as a security guard at the mall where the killer opened fire, was also killed.