Community mourns Baylor grad student who died from COVID-19 complications
WACO, Texas (Waco Tribune-Herald ) A 21-year-old Baylor graduate student and Waco native on the cusp of graduation died from COVID-19 complications Sunday, leaving behind a community to mourn and imagine what she might have accomplished next.
Alicia Martinez is the first Baylor University student to die as a result of COVID-19 and the youngest person to die from the virus in McLennan County. She was a first-generation college student studying at the School of Social Work. Her professors, as well as former teachers at Rapoport Academy Public School, remembered her as a passionate advocate for equality, a devout Christian and a natural leader.