“I ran into a girl who was covered in blood from head to toe,” says Angel Garza, who came to the scene as a rescuer to help after the shooting in Uvalde.
Garza asked she was injured. “She said in a panic that she was okay, but her best friend had been shot.”
When the rescuer asked for the name of the girl who had been shot, his world collapsed. The best friend the girl talked about was his daughter Amerie.
‘I just want to know why’
“She was so sweet, she didn’t do anything wrong and always listened to her parents. She was creative and regularly made crafts for us. She was never in trouble at school. I just want to know why,” says the emotional father.
“Amerie was the big sister to our 3-year-old son Zayne. He would ask about his big sister every morning when he woke up. We told him his sister is no longer with us and he just cried.”
Amerie had recently celebrated her tenth birthday with her family. “We had given her a cell phone for her birthday, she’d wanted that for so long.”
“Two classmates told me she was trying to call the police. I think he shot her then,” Garza says, holding up a photo of his daughter. “How can you look at her and just shoot her?”