The teenage daughter of a Texas police officer killed in the line of duty over the weekend deleted a #BlueLivesMatter tribute to her father after social media users celebrated his death and accused her of racism.

Officer down: McAllen Police Department officers Edelmiro Garza, 45, and Ismael Chavez, 39, were shot and killed Saturday while responding to a domestic disturbance, ABC 11 reported.

• The deceased 23-year-old suspect, Aldon Caramillo, turned the gun on himself after firing at police, authorities said.
• Caramillo had a lengthy rap sheet, which included assault, driving under the influence and fleeing from law enforcement.
• "What I'm trying to tell you is the officers never had a chance to suspect a deadly assault on them," McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez told reporters during a press conference on Saturday.

“I love you daddy”: Savannah Benavides posted a Twitter tribute to the man she regarded as her father the same day he was slain.

This is Savannah, the daughter of Ismael Chavez, one of the cops that was shot yesterday. She seems to have deleted her posts grieving her father due to the amount of hate she was getting from “anti-police” accounts.
It’s so sad that she can’t even mourn in peace. pic.twitter.com/tQNTskSdnp

— Roy Cabello (@rowjelli) July 12, 2020

• According to a Facebook post from Chavez’s sister, Benavides was not her brother’s biological daughter, but her brother was so “full of love” he “served as a father figure to Savannah Benavides.”
• “With that being said I would like to clarify the relationship, Ismael Chavez is not my biological father, but he is the man who stepped up and helped raise me, and for that I will forever be grateful,” Benavides wrote in a followup to her initial tweet.

The reaction: Several Twitter users responded by accusing Benavides of racism for using the phrase #BlueLivesMatter – others mocked her by celebrating Chavez’s death.

A girl's dad, police officer Ismael Chavez of McAllen PD, was murdered in the line of duty along with his partner Edelmiro Garza in an ambush. Here's how some leftists responded. There's hundreds of these. pic.twitter.com/PrHDMWoDf4

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 13, 2020

• “I am so sorry for your loss but you didn’t have to use a racist hashtag,” said one Twitter user, whose tweet received over 1,700 likes.
• Another commenter said, “Blue lives matter was literally created in response to and to undermine black lives matter.”
• A Twitter user who identified herself as Benavides’ cousin slammed the girl’s critics, saying “it’s pathetic how people can be so unsympathetic to a girl that is trying to commemorate her father.”

Benavides eventually responded by deleting the post.