One mass shooting victim 'didn't want to go to school' that day
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Publishing date:May 26, 2022 • 12 hours ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
Jailah Silguero, one of the victims of the mass shooting Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, is seen in this undated photo obtained from social media.
Jailah Silguero, one of the victims of the mass shooting Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, is seen in this undated photo obtained from social media. PHOTO BY SILGUERO'S AND LUEVANOS' FAMILY /REUTERS
Jailah Silguero, among the fourth graders killed in the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school mass shooting, didn’t want to go to school that morning, according to her grandmother.
But with only two days left, her mother told her she must.
“Jailah didn’t want to go to school yesterday,” grandma Linda Gonzales told the Daily Beast, according to the New York Post. “That’s what her momma was really upset about last night: ‘If only I had let her stay home.’”
The girl’s cousin, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, was also among the 19 children killed.
Gonzales said Jailah and Jayce were the babies of the family and the former loved to dance and the latter loved to make people laugh.
“They were just so sweet,” she told The Daily Beast. “They were sweet kids and lovable. What can you say about little innocent kids?”
Gonzales said Jailah’s mother Veronica Luevanos spent hours going back and forth between the school and the civics center where parents were being reunited with their children.
“They didn’t realize there were dead children in the school,” Gonzales said.
“They kept telling them: go to (the) hospital or go to the civic center. Nobody was told there’s dead kids in there. Nobody.”
Overall, 21 people were killed, including two teachers, when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the school and allegedly started shooting at “whoever’s in his way.”
Gonzales told The Daily Beast one her nephews, who works with the local sheriff’s department, left the horrific scene of the mass shooting drenched in blood.
“He picked up some children to lay them in someplace so they could be covered,” said Gonzales. “He’ll never forget the scene.”
Jailah Silguero, among the fourth graders killed in Uvalde, Texas, didn’t want to go to school that morning, according to her grandmother.
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