FOREVER BE BROKEN’
Of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting
and cousin Jayce nor your 2 teachers,” Veronica Luevanos, Jailah’s mom, wrote on Facebook. “I’m so heartbroken baby.”
Rogelio Torres, 10
Rogelio can be seen in photos on social media wearing a red shirt that says “difference maker — Robb Elementary.” He was confirmed to be one of the deceased by his father, Federico Torres, to news station KHOU. In a heartbreaking video Tuesday, Torres was waiting outside the civic center for any news of his son, saying he was waiting for several hours to hear about his son’s fate.
A DNA sample confirmed his worst nightmare.
Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10
Annabell had just attended the school award ceremony at Robb Elementary, where she earned a certificate for making the A-B honor roll. A photo of her provided by her father, Jessie Rodriguez, 53, shows her holding her honor roll certificate and a music certificate and beaming from ear to ear.
Rodriguez, a carpenter, was anxiously waiting on word of his daughter’s wellbeing all day Tuesday. He said he left work as soon as he received word that his daughter’s school was the target of a mass shooting.
Rodriguez — who hadn’t seen his daughter in three months — was uneasy, fearful about how he would find his daughter.
He heard there was a 10-year-old at a hospital in San Antonio and held out hope that it was her.
Ultimately, he learned she was among the dead.
Makenna Lee Elrod, 10
Makenna was described as “beautiful, funny, smart and amazing” by her aunt, Allison McCullough, in a GoFundMe post.
McCullough asked people to pray for their family and remember Makenna.
“Words cannot express the pain my sister and our family is going through,” McCullough wrote.
She added that Makenna “had the biggest heart and loved her family and friends so much.”
Maite Yuleana Rodriguez, 10
A cousin of Maite confirmed her death on Facebook and referred to her as a “beautiful angel.”
Photos posted to social media show her posing proudly with academic award certificates she won at Robb Elementary’s ceremony the morning of the shooting.
Miranda Mathis, 11
Miranda’s cousin, Deanna Miller, posted Tuesday afternoon on Facebook that her family still was looking for the little girl.
“Please Lord here our prayers and please let these babies just be misplaced and harm free,” she said in the post.
Later, Miller confirmed that Miranda was one of the dead.
Nevaeh Bravo, 10
On Tuesday evening, after Nevaeh couldn’t be found, her cousin, Emily Grace Ayala, posted on Facebook asking for leads.
It wasn’t until later that they realized Nevaeh was among the dead.
“She is flying with the angels above,” Ayala posted.
“We love you, Nevaeh very much princess. Please everyone continue to keep her parents and our family in your prayers.”
Jackie Cazares, 10
Jackie was in the same class as her cousin Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, who also was killed during the shooting. Her father, Jacinto Cazares, told ABC News that his daughter “had the biggest heart” and that she was the “one that would go out of her way to help anyone.”
“My little girl was full of life and touched so many people,” he said. “It gives me some comfort that she would be the little cracker that would have done something to help her classmates in that very scary scenario.”
Alithia Ramirez, 10
Alithia had just turned 10 last month.
She loved to draw and wanted to be an artist, according to a KSAT interview with her father. She even recently submitted a drawing to the Doodle for Google contest.
“Why … why hurt these little innocent kids,” one of Alithia’s cousins posted on Twitter. “Finding out that my baby cousin gained her wings was just a heartbreaking moment,” she added. “I hate seeing my family suffer. You will be missed, Alithia Ramirez.”