UVALDE, Texas — A ten-year-old woman killed within the Uvalde faculty mass capturing final week was wearing a silver tiara and pink costume for her emotional open-casket wake on Wednesday.
Nevaeh Bravo‘s grief-stricken mother and father had been among the many mourners — many donning pins with the woman’s face on it — who filed previous her pink and silver casket on the Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Dwelling.
“She at all times helped me out so much. She was an excellent woman,” the woman’s emotional father, Juan Julian Bravo, advised The Put up exterior the wake.
Nevaeh’s mom was too overcome with grief to talk.
At one level throughout the wake, Nevaeh’s dad might be seen along with his arm round his spouse as they seen their daughter’s casket, which was adorned with pink and purple flowers and a pink teddy bear.
One sobbing mourner positioned her fingers via the slain woman’s lengthy, brown hair as she paid her respects.
Photographs of Nevaeh appeared on a TV contained in the funeral residence close to the casket, together with one exhibiting the younger woman sticking her tongue out.
Others photographs confirmed Nevaeh beaming at Disney World alongside her household and her sporting her Uvalde softball staff jersey.
Nevaeh, whose first title is heaven spelled backward, is survived by her mother and father, two brothers and a sister.
The funeral residence the place Nevaeh’s wake was held is situated throughout the road from Robb Elementary College the place she was tragically gunned down final week with 18 different college students and two lecturers.
Native police have confronted immense backlash for not instantly breaching the locked school rooms the place the gunman was holed up amid the bloodbath.
“I want there was extra safety, not solely on this faculty however all colleges… I simply don’t know why they didn’t have these colleges safer,” Nevaeh’s dad advised The Put up on Wednesday.
Nevaeh’s funeral is scheduled to be held Thursday on the close by at Sacred Coronary heart Catholic Church.
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