Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas posthumously awards Uvalde victim with ‘one of the highest honors’

The Woman Scouts of Southwest Texas honored 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, 10, with “one of many highest honors in Woman Scouting” following her loss of life within the Uvalde taking pictures.

Garza, who was amongst 19 college students killed of their fourth-grade classroom, posthumously acquired The Bronze Cross for “saving or making an attempt to save lots of life on the danger of the Woman Scout’s personal life,” the group mentioned in a Tweet on Tuesday, the identical day Amerie was buried.

The Woman Scouts of Southwest Texas mentioned Amerie “did all she might to save lots of the lives of her classmates and lecturers.”

The group mentioned additionally they paid tribute to Amerie with a Presentation of Colours at her funeral.

Her stepfather, Angel Garza, advised the Related Press that Amerie’s good friend advised him that Amerie had tried to name the police earlier than she was shot.

Within the taking pictures on Tuesday, Might 24, an 18-year-old gunman stormed Robb Elementary Faculty and barricaded himself contained in the classroom for greater than an hour. He additionally killed the scholars’ lecturers, Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles.

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Amerie was the primary to be buried on Tuesday, precisely three weeks after she celebrated her tenth birthday.

Amerie’s household described her as variety however sassy, a little bit diva with a coronary heart of gold, in keeping with the Texas Tribune.

Hours earlier than she died, she acquired the A-B honor roll. She was artistic, her household mentioned, and she or he dreamed of turning into an artwork instructor.

“She was very artistic,” her grandmother Dora Mendoza advised the AP. “She was my child. At any time when she noticed flowers she would draw them.”

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