Kimberly Rubio, Lexi Rubio, Felix Rubio.Photo: facebook
On Tuesday morning, Kimberly Rubio told her daughter to fix her hair in preparation for an awards ceremony at school.
Alexandria Aniyah “Lexi” Rubio, made the school’s honor roll and also won the Good Citizen award at Robb Elementary School inUvalde, Texas. Both her parents attended the ceremony after they attended an honor roll ceremony for their second-grade son, Julian.
Kimberly, a reporter for theUvalde Leader-News, went to work — there she heard commotion on the police scanner in the newsroom. She immediately texted her husband, a sheriff’s deputy. He was off work that day, but he put on his uniform and went to the school.
“It was just so bad. We couldn’t find her,” remembers Kimberly, 33. “Bus after bus, we looked for her, and she didn’t come out. And the people in the room just kept getting smaller and smaller. We checked the hospitals.”
Lexi Rubio.Courtesy Felix Rubio
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Lexi loved playing softball and basketball, and looked forward to playing volleyball in seventh grade. While her parents were waiting to learn what had happened to Lexi, they received a text that she made the her softball all-star team.
“Lexi was going to be somebody,” Felix says. “She was going to do something.”
Her mother is a student studying history at St Mary’s in San Antonio. Lexi wanted to go to law school there.
“She was really smart, very driven,” Kimberly says. “She knew what she wanted, and when she wanted something, she went out and got it.”
Her parents say Lexi loved TikTok, pasta with Alfredo sauce and trips to Starbucks.
“I think 10 years isn’t enough,” Kimberly says. “It shouldn’t have happened.”
A GoFundMe campaignhas been set up in Lexi’s honor.
source: people.com
