Funerals begin for first two Uvalde school shooting victims: ‘She truly had a heart of gold’

Key Facts

• In a heart-wrenching scene that will be repeated 21 times in the coming weeks, two little girls were laid to rest Tuesday — the first funerals for victims of an elementary school slaughter carried out by a deranged teenaged gunman in Uvalde, Texas.
• Amerie Jo Garza and Maite Rodríguez were mourned by their families and a stunned nation at the start of an incomprehensible procession of 21 memorials and 19 child-size coffins for the youngest victims of the Robb Elementary School massacre.
• Two teachers were also killed in the bloodbath.
• Amerie was remembered first during an afternoon mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where a crush of mourners came to pray and grieve.

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