He eventually moved to El Paso because it was peaceful. Cruz Velazquez told The New York Times his father, who was born in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, moved first to Ciudad Juarez, located across the border from El Paso, and then to Denver, where he lived for 30 years. Nicholasa Velazquez was shot in the face and stomach, but relatives said her prognosis is good. "They were just crying telling us that it hurt where they shot them at, it hurt," Fuentes said.īoth were hospitalized but 77-year-old Juan Velazquez, who was shot in the side of his stomach, died Monday. Their granddaughter, Daisy Fuentes, told KTSM-TV that after being shot, her grandmother called Fuentes' mother. Juan and Nicholasa Velazquez had just parked their car at the Walmart store when they were approached by the shooter. The couple's five-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter were also at the Walmart but were not shot. I told her that our prayers are there and we're on our way." Jessica Coca Garcia's father, Don Coca, said they have family in the El Paso area who were able to be with the couple. She said her daughter was in stable condition and her son-in-law was in critical condition. She said her son-in-law, Memo Garcia, was shot twice in the leg and once in the back. Norma Coca told Wichita, Kan.-television station KWCH that her daughter and son-in-law were near the front doors of the Walmart when they were shot.Ĭoca, who lives in Salina, Kan., said her daughter, Jessica Coca Garcia, was shot three times in the leg. Jessica Coca Garcia and Memo Garcia were at the Walmart in El Paso to raise funds for a youth sports team one of their children played on when a gunman opened fire, wounding them, a relative said. The Anchondos were preparing to throw a housewarming party, having celebrated their first wedding anniversary last week. He also was on the verge of completing a home for his family. "He had the character and the charisma."Īzzam said Anchondo had started a business in El Paso building things from granite and stone. "I love the guy," Koteiba "Koti" Azzam said in a phone interview from San Marcos, Texas, where he attends Texas State University. Friends and family say his wife, Jordan, died protecting their baby. "I knew that he would have done anything for them - and he did," friend Benjamin Thompson told CBC's As It Happens guest host Piya Chattopadhyay.Īndre Anchondo was killed in the shooting. Andre AnchondoĪndre Anchondo, husband of Jordan Anchondo, died while shielding his wife and baby from the shooter. Jordan, a mother of three, and Andre Anchondo had dropped off her five-year old daughter at cheerleading practice before going to shop for school supplies on Saturday at a Walmart in El Paso. So he pretty much lived because she gave her life." "When she got shot she was holding him and she fell on him, so that's why he broke some of his bones. "From the baby's injuries, they said that more than likely my sister was trying to shield him," she said. Leta Jamrowski of El Paso spoke to The Associated Press as she paced a waiting room at the University Medical Center of El Paso, where her two-month-old nephew was being treated for broken bones - the result of his mother's fall. Jordan Anchondo was among those killed, Anchondo's sister said, and she apparently died while protecting her two-month-old son from the hail of bullets. Here are some of their stories: Jordan Anchondo Many of the victims were shot at a Walmart. Using a rifle, the El Paso gunman opened fire in an area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school shopping season. In the border town of El Paso, Texas, a shooter opened fire and left 22 people dead and more than two dozen injured.
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