The father of one of the 19 children killed in the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre learned that his daughter had died while helping to rescue her best friend who was shot.
In an interview for the CNN network, Angel Garza, the father of Amerie Jo Garza, assured that what happened was the "worst fear" of the minor who tried to call the police before being murdered.
"She was just trying to help," he assured.
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When he heard about the shooting, the father, who is a medical assistant, rushed to Robb Elementary School and immediately began helping the children.
"They began to take them out. I was paying attention to a girl who was covered in blood from head to toe.
I thought she was injured
," said the father, who assured that the little girl confirmed that she was fine, but that they had shot her to her best friend.
“She was hysterical (...) she said that they had killed her best friend, that she was not breathing and that she was trying to call the police.
I asked her what her friend's name was and she told me: Amerie ”
, narrated the disconsolate father.
Amerie had turned 10 two weeks ago, and her family had given her a much-desired cell phone — the same one she tried to call the police on.
"She was calling the authorities and I think he shot her."
Amerie Garza, one of the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Family file via Reuters.
"I just want people to know that she died trying to save her teammates, she just wanted to save them all," Garza added to journalist Anderson Cooper.
The father also said that his youngest son Zane, 3, has not stopped asking about his sister since Tuesday, the day of the tragedy.
"We informed him that his sister is now with God and that she will no longer be with us and of course he cried too," he said, holding up the honorable mention portrait of Amerie, a photograph taken a few hours before the ceremony. slaughter.
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