“I am…[devastated] to report Irma’s husband Joe has tragically passed away this morning (5/26/2022) as a result of a medical emergency. Please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers. I truly believe Joe died of a broken heart and losing the love of his life of more than 30 years was too much to bear.”
Joe and Irma were high school sweethearts.
According to their nephew, John Martinez, they leave behind four children ages 13 to 23,
“No child should have to go through this, my heart breaks for them,”
Martinez shared in a post he made announcing that his uncle died of grief,
“EXTREMELY heartbreaking and come with deep sorrow to say that my Tia Irma’s husband Joe Garcia has passed away due to grief,” John Martinez shared, “I truly am at a loss for words for how we are all feeling, PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY, God have mercy on us, this isn’t easy.”
A local reporter posted that Garcia suffered a fatal heart attack.
On a now removed instagram account with the user name salv8dor_ and believed to belong to Ramos, were a pair of selfies, a person sitting with a magazine in their lap and a pair of rifles laying side by side.
The account tagged another user in picture of the rifles – @epnupues -However the owner of that account claims that Ramos is “a stranger,” adding “i know nothing about him he decided to tag me in his gun post. i’m so sorry for the victims and their families i really don’t know what to say.”
The account holder said it was ‘scary’ that Ramos tagged her in the photo of the rifles during a DM chat thread between the account @sal8dor_ and @epnupues
May 12:
“You gonna repost my gun pics”
She replied Friday saying,
“what your guns gotta do with me”
“Just wanted to tag you”
“I’m so confused,” she replied then posted
“But why”
He then said,
“idk, be grateful I tagged you”
She replied: ‘No it’s just scary,’ adding: ‘I barely know you and you tag me in a picture with guns?’
Then at 5:43 a.m. Tuesday @salv8dor_ messaged her “I’m about to”.
“about to what” she asked
“I’ll tell you before 11” he said.
He said he’d text her in an hour and said she had to respond, adding
“I got a lil secret I wanna tell u.”
He did not send a message revealing his secret. His last message at 9:16 a.m. was “Ima air out”.
About two and a half hours later school officials announced that Robb Elementary school was on lockdown after shots were fired.
Shortly after that an ‘active shooter’ was reported at the elementary school.
