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She loved the movie “Encanto,” cheerleading and basketball, according to her grandparents. Rogelio Lugo and Nelda Lugo, Garcia’s grandparents, told the Los Angeles Times that she was a fourth grader at the school and the second-eldest of five girls in the family.
What she appreciated most about her older brother, she said, “that he would always support me and he would always play with me.”Įliana “Ellie” Garcia was nine years old and about to turn 10, family members told CNN affiliate KHOU. Jose Jr.’s sister Endrea Flores was also in the fourth grade at Robb Elementary, though Endrea was in a different class than her brother. He had a thing with babies, like my friends’ babies. “He would just be helping me with the baby. “He would just be like my little shadow,” she told CNN’s Gary Tuchman. His mother, Cynthia Flores, remembered how he would always help her around the house, especially when it came to his baby brother. wanted to be a police officer when he grew up because he wanted to protect others.
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“He was always full of energy,” Flores said. was an amazing kid and big brother to his siblings, his father Jose Flores Sr. “She loved her family and friends so much,” McCullough said.ġ0-year-old Jose Flores Jr. McCullough described her niece as “a light to all who knew her.” She was a natural leader and loved school. She added that Makenna loved to play softball, do gymnastics and spend time with her family. “Her smile would light up a room,” Allison McCullough, Makenna’s aunt, told ABC.
Makenna’s mother, April Elrod, confirmed her child’s death to CNN. Hours later, he learned his daughter had been shot and killed, the Post reported. We were saying, ‘Let’s go’ because that is how worried we were, and we wanted to get our babies out.” “There were five or six of (us) fathers, hearing the gunshots, and (police officers) were telling us to move back,” Cazares told the paper. He said he wanted to rush into the building as soon as he heard the gunshots coming from inside the school. Jacinto Cazares arrived at the scene at Robb Elementary School shortly after he heard that something was going on, joined near the building’s front door by several other men who had children at the school, he told The Washington Post. “And now, we’re being brought together, but it is in tragedy.” “Through COVID, through the death of a family member a year ago, it brought us together and it was something beautiful,” he added. It comforts me a little bit to think she would be the one to help her friends in need.”Ĭazares’ family recently came together to celebrate her first Communion, her father said. “And to me, she’s a little firecracker, man. She would do anything for anybody,” Cazares’ father Jacinto Cazares told reporters in a video distributed by Reuters. Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares was killed along with her cousin, friend and classmate Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, according to posts by her family on social media.