
Her daughter was killed in the Uvalde school shooting. Now Kimberly Mata-Rubio is running to be mayor.
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Alexandria "Lexi" Rubio loved going to Starbucks and ordering a sweetened tall peach green tea lemonade and a cake pop, showing off bright colors like yellow, pink and turquoise. She wanted to grow up to play softball in college and become a lawyer. But the 10-year-old fourth-grader never got the chance – last May, she was among 21 people killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Now, her mom is running to be the city's mayor, saying in a message to her daughter, "I will honor your life with action."
"I grieve for the woman you would have become and all the difference you would have made in this world. I grieve for the woman I was when you were still here," Kimberly Mata-Rubio wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday, along with a photo of a newspaper article announcing her mayoral run. "But, one part of me still exist, I am still your mom."

Dana Chandler has spent decades maintaining her innocence against allegations she was responsible for the 2002 murders of her ex-husband, Mike Sisco, and his girlfriend, Karen Harkness. HAROLD WORSWICK (to 911): I just located my daughter and she's downstairs and she's dead … JULY 28: … Dana stalking neighborhood at 8:30, caught her she left. ... DET. RICHARD VOLLE (phone call to Chandler): Your husband was found shot to death today, this afternoon. Your ex-husband, I'm sorry … Can you tell me when the last time was that you talked to him? DANA CHANDLER (phone call to police): Hi, my name is Dana Chandler and I got a very disturbing phone call last night. Someone had said that my ex-husband had been killed, and I'm just calling to — to see if that's true or not … DET. RICHARD VOLLE ( interview audio 2002): Tell me about what happened on the 6th. HAILEY SEEL (recorded phone call): … I think that the only way I can really move on with a relationship with you is if we can get it, you know, if you can just tell me yourself that you did it. … HAILEY SEEL (recorded phone call): Why did it have no calls and was at home the whole time? You knew it could be traced. DANA CHANDLER (recorded conversation): I said I could kill him. You ever think about killing him? HAROLD DOW | "48 Hours" correspondent: Did you know anything about the death of Michael and Karen? HAILEY SEEL (recording to Dana Chandler): Nobody can say that they — that you were in Colorado that weekend? DANA CHANDLER (recording): …. you ever think about killing him? DANA CHANDLER (recording, played in court): … She asked me for money and we don't give people money at AA. I said, "I'll go buy you some gas …"