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

Key Facts

• Two 10-year-old girls were buried Tuesday, a week after they were shot and killed inside their fourth-grade classroom in Texas, surrounded by family and friends still reeling from unanswered questions.
• Uvalde’s first funerals, for Amerie Jo Garza and Maite Rodríguez, began a nightmare procession: 21 memorials, 21 grieving families, 19 child-size coffins for the victims of the Robb Elementary School massacre.
• Amerie was remembered first during an afternoon mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
• Leaders at the church had to turn people away because the crowd of mourners grew so large.

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