A Grieving Husband Placed Flowers On Wife Grave, Came Home & Died

After a school shooting in Uvalde took the lives of both teachers Irma Garcia and her husband two days later, a Texas family has been ripped apart by a double tragedy this week.

Irma, 49, was one of 21 people killed by an 18-year-old gunman who barricaded himself inside her fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School and opened fire with an assault rifle on everyone inside on Tuesday.

Husband died of grief after his wife was killed in a gunshot

Joe Garcia, Irma Garcia's distraught husband, fell and died at home from a heart attack two days after the attack, according to a family member who spoke to the New York Times.

Garcia, 50, had dropped off flowers at his wife's tomb in Uvalde, Texas, on Thursday morning before returning home, where he slumped and died, according to his nephew John Martinez.

"Extremely heartbreaking and come with profound sorrow to say that my Tia Irma's husband Joe Garcia passed away due to grief, I genuinely am at a loss for words for how we are all feeling," Martinez wrote on Twitter, begging prayers for the family. "May God have mercy on us; this isn't going to be easy."

Joe Garcia's death was confirmed by the Archdiocese of San Antonio and the Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary to The Associated Press.

Their relationship

The couple has 4 kids after 24 years of marriage. They enjoyed barbecuing, and Irma also enjoyed listening to music and travelling to Concan, a hamlet located 40 kilometres north of Uvalde on the Frio River.

Garcia was in his 23rd year of teaching, all of them at Robb, when the school year ended on Thursday. She was previously named teacher of the year at the school and received Trinity University's Trinity Prize for Excellence in Education in 2019. She had spent the previous five years co-teaching with Eva Mireles, who was also killed.

Irma Garcia and her co-teacher Eva Mireles, according to relatives briefed by officials, perished trying to protect their kids.

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