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The parking garage was to remain illuminated for the next 21 nights from May 26: “One night for each of the innocent victims of this tragedy,” theThe first night, the garage was lit up in memory of Alexandria Aniyah Rubio, 10. Since then, it has honored five other students: Alithia Ramirez, 10; Amerie Jo Garza, 10; Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10; Eliahna Cruz Torres, 10, and Eliahna Amyah Garcia, 9. It also was lit up for one teacher, Eva Mireles, 44, who was honored last night.
“Uvalde is part of our community, they are our neighbors, they are our friends, our relatives and those senselessly killed were our responsibility as a society,” Morrow wrote. “Our zoo crew and volunteers join fellow San Antonians, Texans and people around the world in grief, devastation, and anger. We can and must do better for our children!”
The zoo was applauded on its Facebook page by thousands of viewers, including a post from Maggie Mireles-Thomas, the sister of Eva Mireles, who along with her co-teacher, Irma Garcia, 48, died shielding their students from the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.
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