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The Stories From Uvalde, Texas Just Keep Getting Worse.
Those kids and their teachers were failed in every conceivable way.
After the slaughter in Robb Elementary left nineteen ten-year-olds dead and their teachers as well, survivor eleven-year-old IIliana Treviño went to lay flowers on the grave of her best friend Amerie Jo Garza.
As she and her mother got ready to leave, IIliana went into cardiac arrest.
Wendy Grossman Kantor with PEOPLE writes:
IIliana Treviño, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary School, lost her best friend, Amerie Jo Garza, in last month’s mass shooting at the Uvalde, Texas, school.
According to IIliana’s mother, Amerie, 10, would protect IIliana, 11, from school bullies. After visiting Amerie’s memorial last week, Iliana’s heart rate spiked. Her mother rushed her to the hospital, where doctors told her IIliana had been on the verge of having a heart attack. More than a week later, she remains hospitalized.
“I think it’s just from a broken heart that we need to work on healing,” Jessica Treviño, 40, tells PEOPLE, adding that her daughter had no previous medical issues that might have predicted this.
“Everything just broke her in half, and she feels the fear of being bullied again,” she…
