IDs on tragic teacher and two students
A teacher and two fourthgraders have been identified as three of the victims killed by a teenage gunman in the Texas elementary school shooting.
Eva Mireles, a fourth-grade teacher, was killed along with 19 students in the mass shooting Tuesday, according to the woman’s aunt.
Mireles had worked for the Uvalde school district for 17 years before she was shot and killed by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, said the educator’s aunt Lydia Martinez.
“(G)etting different stories from different news stations… and Governor so still waiting for all facts,” Martinez shared on Facebook. “One thing that’s certain is that my beautiful niece did not survive this coward’s actions.”
A neighbor of Mireles told The Post the educator “was just a sweetheart.”
“It’s a tragedy that this happened to a person like this,” said the neighbor, who did not want to be identified by name.
“She was the sweetest person and she would take her cute dogs out on walks and she would say ‘Hi.’
“Her husband is a police officer and they are just very nice people. We are in shock something like this would happen. This is a quiet community.”
Mireles, in her early 40s, was the mother of a daughter in college, according to her bio page on the school district’s website.
She wrote in her bio of her love of running, hiking and bicycling.
“My daughter’s beautiful teacher was the teacher who was killed in Uvalde, TX,” one school parent tweeted.
“She was a beautiful person & dedicated teacher. She believed in [daughter] Gabby & went above & beyond to teach her as you can see below. There are no words.”
One of the 19 children killed in the massacre was 10-year-old Xavier Lopez, a fourth-grader at the school, family members confirmed to KSAT TV.
His mother was with him at the school just hours before for an awards ceremony, a cousin said. It was the last time she would see her son alive.
A third victim, fourth-grader Uziyah Garcia, was confirmed killed by his uncle.
Garcia was a student in the class where the shooting took place, his aunt and primary guardian, Nikki Jackson, told the Daily Beast.
She was among 14 members of the school community waiting outside the Uvalde Civic Center Tuesday evening for updates on those unaccounted for.
Jackson said Garcia loved school, gaming and playing basketball. He especially enjoyed the Fortnite video game and decorated his bedroom full of Fortnite-themed memorabilia, according to the Daily Beast.
A second adult was believed to be killed in the shooting. That identity of that person has not been revealed.
The other 17 children killed also have not been identified by name.