{"id":81165,"date":"2018-08-15T08:18:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81165"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:14","slug":"army-veteran-killed-protecting-children-on-fist-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81165","title":{"rendered":"Army veteran killed protecting children on fist day of school."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first day of class at a Texas elementary school quickly went from a day of excitement to one of tragedy Monday as a mother was killed shielding several children from a car in the school\u2019s parking lot.<\/p>\n

Kharisma Ashlee James, 33, died at the scene at Mary N. Tippin Elementary School, in El Paso. Three students were also injured, including two of the James\u2019 children, school officials said. They were taken to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

Victor Araiza, chief of the El Paso Independent School District\u2019s police force, said at a media briefing Tuesday morning that the victim\u2019s 6-year-old daughter, her 7-year-old son and the\u00a0third child, a 10-year-old fellow student, are in serious condition but are getting better.\u00a0\u201cAll of those children are expected to survive,\u201d Araiza said.<\/p>\n

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James\u2019\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0indicated that she was a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq. After eight years in the service, she went back to school with the help of a scholarship from the Women\u2019s Fund of El Paso,\u00a0according to a May 2017 blog post on the organization\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 entire article is available HERE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are there even words … it is said that, “A\u00a0hero<\/em>\u00a0is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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