A 35-year-old congressional staffer has died after a disturbing incident outside her home in Uvalde, Texas, and now her mother is speaking out about the last heartbreaking words her daughter spoke before being airlifted to the hospital.

A quiet night turned tragic
On a warm Saturday night, emergency crews responded to a 911 call reporting a disturbance at a home on Geraldine Avenue. When they arrived, they found 35-year-old congressional staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, a young mother, with severe burns, still conscious, lying outside her home.

Santos-Aviles was rushed by helicopter to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where she later passed away from her injuries.According to her mother, who had just been on the phone with her moments earlier, the woman’s final plea was chilling in its simplicity: “I don’t want to die.”

“They told her, ‘We’ll do our best to take care of you,’” her mother recalled through tears.