A 22-year-old Texas preschool teacher was killed and five children were hospitalized in a tragic car crash during student pickup following a children’s holiday performance, according to police. The teacher,

Alexia Rosales, the San Antonio teacher supervising the children, was pinned under a car, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and Excelled Montessori Plus. The fire department used a hydraulic lift to get the car off her, but she died at the scene, Sheriff Javier Salazar said in a Dec. 19 news conference.

Multiple people, including several children, were pinned under a vehicle that crashed into an ExcellED Montessori preschool playground.

Excelled Montessori said 22-year-old Alexia Rosales had a "smile [that] lit up every room, and her laughter brought so much joy to our days."

Two days after a preschool teacher was killed when an SUV crashed into ExcellED Montessori, a GoFundMe surpassed its goal nearly four times.

Alexia Rosales, a 22-year-old teacher at Excelled Montessori Plus in San Antonio, Texas, died after being pinned under a car in a 'tragic accident.'

A teacher at a San Antonio-area day care was killed and another employee and five toddlers were injured when a parent's car accelerated into another vehicle in the parking lot and both vehicles crashed into a play area,

Alexia Rosales was killed after a car plowed through a fence where kids and teachers were playing at Excelled Montessori Preschool in Bexar County.