“She loved animals,” Destiny Esquivel’s cousin Adrienne Broaddus of CNN said. on Monday. “She was determined. She was smart. She was going to be somebody.”
“Classmates said she was brave. of other students, telling them where to hide,” Esquivel said. “She is a hero.”
Devastating loss of 21 Lives Deeply Hurt South Texas Residents community it unites in support of one another.
“I just want people to know she died trying to save her classmates,” Ángel Garcia said on Wednesday. “She is just wanted save everyone.”
Gustavo Garcia-Siller, Archbishop of San Antonio, he said plans to support families with love, tenderness and compassion.
“I show through gestures, facial expressions of care and in a little way convey what it is community and more people during world think of they suffer with them,” he told CNN.
“We need to deal with with each one of them in different way because everyone family is different. Every child unique. And so we’ll try to make best we can then assure them with gestures again what will we be (there) for them in for a long time run. Is not just this moment.”
chief of police decision called into question
“Our attention on Tuesday on our families who lost loved ones,” Mayor Don McLaughlin said on Monday. in statement. “We begin bury our children innocent victims tomorrow of last murders in a week at Robb’s elementary school. special City Council meeting will not take place place Scheduled.”
“Advise, we have a child on line, dispatcher says. “The child advises that he in room full of victims”.
The video shows that the police at the scene were informed of at least one the child remained alive in the classroom.
CNN couldn’t on its own confirm video/audio. Unclear source of video, and at what point in incident sound is heard. CNN reached out to the authorities to answer questions about this audio.
In addition, Facebook live video outside Robb Elementary turns on visible radio during filming call of a child saying they were shot.
Video taken by a man who spoke to CNN but not want be publicly identified, including a male voice asking, “Let me see. Let me see. Are you injured? BUT voice replies: “I was shot!”
Although voice sounds like what of baby it’s not clear if voice was a student teacher or law enforcement officer.
That man who recorded a video says the sound came from the radio in customs and border service vehicle outside school. It is not clear why the conversation was on it’s a radio but the man said it was on off after the officers realized he was listening to him.
Community supported near and far
Help keeps pouring in in from neighbors and strangers.
Carlos Hernandez, whose restaurant is a mile from Robb Elementary School, gave more than 60 family plates in less than two hours feed grieving families and neighbors on Thursday.
“It real difficult situation, just trying show the children they have us like their backbone and support systemHernandez told CNN. “We always provide security, whether there is an incident or not.”
“A lot of of times after something like this is people not want talk to the person.” — Bonnie Fear, Crisis Response Coordinator with This was reported to CNN by a charitable organization of the Lutheran church. “After a traumatic events, people not want to deal with with people sometimes they just want something they can touch, talk without judgment, and it’s very simple.”
“They are show unconditional love,” she added, pointing to the dogs.
Elsewhere, the El Progreso Memorial Library became place of recovery.
On Wednesday, just a day after the shooting of children, librarian Martha Carreon sat in front of ranks of small faces, reading, singing and giggling with the children, taking them to the safe place far from school where there are many of they have witnessed horror.
“We want our building be a safe space haven that is a quiet, calm and cool haven,” El Progreso Memorial Library. director Mendell Morgan told CNN.
CNN’s Alaa Elassar, Holly Yang, Nick Watt, Mark Morales, Joe Sutton, Aya Elamrussi, Teresa Waldrop, Amanda Watts, Virginia Langmaid, Aaron Cooper, and Paula Reid contributed to this report.
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