Alexandria Aniyah Rubio was opinionated like her mother, and she played basketball and softball like her father. When she got older, she wanted to go to college on a softball scholarship and to become an attorney. Lexi, as the 10-year-old was known to family and friends, was among the 19 children and two teachers who were shot to death during the May 24 attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Her family asked mourners to wear bright colors to Lexi’s funeral on Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Uvalde because Lexi loved them. Lexi’s mother, Kimberly Mata-Rubio, said Wednesday during a congressional hearing on gun safety that when her daughter knew she was right, “she stood her ground.”
“When she knew she was right — she so often was — she stood her ground," her mother, Kimberly Mata-Rubio, said Wednesday duringShe also described her daughter as “intelligent, compassionate and athletic.”
Mata-Rubio is a reporter at the local newspaper and Lexi's father is a Uvalde County sheriff's deputy. During the hearing in Washington, they urged Congress to pass tougher gun laws, including one that would raise the age to buy guns like the one used in the attack to 21.Lexi admired Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, her obituary said.
“My first thought was, ‘My Lexi doesn’t even like him,’” Mata-Rubio told The Times. “She was really little, but we talked about this stuff at home.”
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