What we know about the shooting victims at Texas Robb Elementary School

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One of the 10-year-olds aspired to be a lawyer someday. Another, a marine biologist.

Another child had just celebrated her school honor roll achievement with her family, while another student was saving up for a trip to Disney World.

They were among the 19 children and two teachers who were killed on May 24, 2022, after a gunman walked into Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and began firing.

What we know about the shooting

In the aftermath of the massacre, family members shared photos and memories of their loved ones who were killed – from the big dreams they had to the simple things that brought them joy.

Here’s what friends and relatives want everyone to remember about the people they lost.

Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo was 10 years old, her cousin told the Washington Post.

Austin Ayala told the paper the family is devastated after losing Nevaeh, whom he said put a smile on everyone’s face.

Funeral services are pending, according to an online obituary by Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home.

Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares was killed along with her cousin, friend and classmate Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, according to posts by her family on social media.

“She was full of love and full of life. She would do anything for anybody,” Cazares’ father Jacinto Cazares told reporters in a video distributed by Reuters. “And to me, she’s a little firecracker, man. It comforts me a little bit to think she would be the one to help her friends in need.”

Cazares’ family recently came together to celebrate her first Communion, her father said.

“Through COVID, through the death of a family member a year ago, it brought us together and it was something beautiful,” he added. “And now, we’re being brought together, but it is in tragedy.”

Jacinto Cazares arrived at the scene at Robb Elementary School shortly after he heard that something was going on, joined near the building’s front door by several other men who had children at the school, he told The Washington Post. He said he wanted to rush into the building as soon as he heard the gunshots coming from inside the school.

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