For five years, Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles were a teaching team at Robb Elementary School. On Tuesday, they died together in their fourth-grade classroom — slain while probably doing their utmost, relatives said, to protect their students from a rampaging gunman.
Garcia, 48, and Mireles, 44, were the only teachers killed in the shooting in Uvalde, Tex., that authorities say also took the lives of at least 19 children.
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