Texas
21 lives lost: Uvalde victims were a cross-section of a small, mostly Latino town in South Texas
Alithia liked to attract. She had submitted a drawing to Doodle for Google, her father, Ryan Ramirez, advised KSAT-TV. She shared her love for artwork and soccer along with her finest good friend, Nico Escalante, who was struck and killed by a automobile in Grand Prairie final 12 months.
Alithia tried to make use of art work to supply solace to Nico’s mother and father.
“I by no means imagined that this little lady can be mature sufficient to say, ‘Hey, you understand what, I need to keep up a correspondence. I need to verify in. I need to make [you a] portray and produce a smile to your face,’” Fernanda Sedeno, Nico’s mother, advised CBS. “That’s what I liked about her, and that reveals how pure and sort her coronary heart was.”
She despatched a drawing of him sketching in heaven whereas she was drawing on earth.
“I made a drawing for you and the household to know that our friendship was particular and that he’ll at all times be by my facet,” Alithia wrote in a message to Nico’s mother and father.