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Read the Uvalde pediatrician’s full testimony: “Those mother’s cries I will never get out of my head”
Felix Rubio and Kimberly Mata-Rubio attended a ceremony for his or her 10-year-old daughter, Lexi, at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, on Could 24. Lexi acquired a great citizen award and accolades for getting all A grades in her lessons.
Her dad and mom did not anticipate their daughter to die later that day when a gunman opened hearth inside the varsity.
“That picture, her final picture ever, was taken at roughly 10:54 a.m. To rejoice, we promised to get her ice cream that night. We instructed her we beloved her, and we might choose her up after faculty. I can nonetheless see her, strolling with us towards the exit. Within the reel that retains scrolling throughout my recollections, she turns her head and smiles again at us to acknowledge my promise. After which we left,” Kimberly Mata-Rubio stated to lawmakers throughout a Home listening to on gun violence.
“I left my daughter at that faculty, and that call will hang-out me for the remainder of my life,” she stated, crying.
She then went again to work on the Uvalde Chief-Information and heard a few taking pictures on the police scanner.
The dad and mom came upon their son was secure, however they might not discover their daughter. Felix Rubio is patrol deputy with the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Workplace.
“We targeted on discovering Lexi. Bus after bus arrived. However she wasn’t on board. We heard there have been kids on the native hospital, so we drove over to offer her description. She wasn’t there.
My dad drove an hour and a half to San Antonio, to test with College Hospital. At this level, some a part of me should have realized that she was gone. Within the midst of chaos, I had the urge to return to Robb. We did not have our automobile at this level. Site visitors was in all places. So, I ran. I ran, barefoot, with my flimsy sandals in my hand. I ran a mile, to the varsity, my husband with me.
We sat exterior for some time earlier than it turned clear we wouldn’t obtain a solution from regulation enforcement on scene,” she stated.
Again in Uvalde, they came upon their daughter had been killed.
“We do not t need you to think about Lexi as only a quantity. She was clever, compassionate and athletic. She was quiet, shy — except she had a degree to make. When she knew she was proper, as she so typically was, she stood her floor. She was agency, direct, voice unwavering,” Mata-Rubio stated.