A pair of passionate educators struck when gunfire broke out inside a Texas elementary school died protecting the students they dedicated their lives to teaching.
Teachers Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia have been identified as the two adults killed in the mass shooting inside Robb Elementary School, which also claimed the lives of at least 19 children. The carnage occurred just before lunch on Tuesday inside the school, and just days before the school year was set to end.
Mireles, a bilingual special education teacher with 17 years of experience, taught fourth-graders at the school in Uvalde, located about 85 miles west of San Antonio near the Mexico border. She was identified by her aunt, Lydia Martinez Delgado, who told the New York Times that her niece died protecting her students.
