Linda Gonzales, the grandmother of fourth-grader Jailah Silguero who was killed in the shooting at Texas’ Robb Elementary School, said she’s outraged that the 18-year-old shooter could obtain an assault weapon.
inside a fourth-grade classroom at the school in Uvalde. The girl’s little cousin, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, also died in the massacre. Gonzales said Jailah and Jayce were the babies of a family that was already in mourning before Tuesday’s horror.
Just a week before, the family mourned the loss of Veronica’s father and held a memorial for him at Jailah’s uncle’s home in Odessa, Gonzales said. “He was in Mexico so they didn’t get to see him,” Gonzales added. “I told Veronica last night, ‘Just look at it as your daddy taking your baby with him.’” “They were just so sweet,” Gonzales said. “They were sweet kids and lovable. What can you say about little innocent kids?” She said Jayce loved to make people laugh, and Jailah loved to dance and was learning to record Tik Tok videos. “I don’t have words. We think this is a small community, it can’t happen here, but oh my God, it’s happening anywhere.” Zeke Luevanos, Gonzales’ son-in-law and Veronica’s brother, was among the parents, friends, and relatives who drove to Uvalde to help loved ones find their missing children. He told theAllison Dinner/AFP via Getty According to Gonzales, Veronica’s phone died as they waited hours outside the school and at the Uvalde civic center for answers. “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.” Veronica traveled back and forth from the civic center to the school, hoping her daughter was one of the children who fled the building. There were rumors that a child had jumped through a window and was hiding in the brush for hours. Meanwhile, Gonzales said one of her nephews, who works for the local sheriff’s department and responded to the horrific scene, had to go home because his clothes were drenched in blood. “He picked up some children to lay them in someplace so they could be covered,” Gonzales said. “He’ll never forget the scene.”“How can they allow an 18-year-old to purchase a weapon when they don’t allow them to buy alcohol or liquor? They can’t buy liquor or cigarettes but they can buy a weapon. We don’t know what to think.”“Why why my baby,” she wrote. “Fly high baby grandma n grandpa are with their arms wide open for baby. We're going to miss u so much my wera Chula my lil side kick.”
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