Please pray for their mom, my sister, and her broken heart,” Del Angel wrote in a fundraising post verified by GoFundMe. “The girls have left a void that nothing in the world could ever fill. Their aunt, Anabel Del Angel, said their mother was wounded. Principal Krista Wilson called them “the kindest, most thoughtful students” in a letter to parents. ![]() Sofia Mendoza, a second-grader at Cox Elementary School, and her big sister, fourth-grader Daniela Mendoza, were among them. The neo-Nazi’s victims represented a cross-section of the increasingly diverse Dallas suburbs. “It broke me when I walked out to see that,” he said. As they were allowed to leave, some walked past bloodied bodies on the ground.įontayne Payton, 35, who was at H&M when he heard gunshots, recalled seeing small corpses covered in white towels and praying that they weren’t children. Shoppers sheltered inside storerooms for an hour or more as police cleared the sprawling mall shop by shop. Outside the locked rooms, security guard Christian LaCour had just helped someone get to safety and was trying to evacuate others when he was fatally shot, Allen Police Chief Brian Harvey said at a news conference Tuesday.Īn Allen police officer who happened to be nearby saved “countless lives” by killing the gunman within four minutes of the attack’s start, authorities said. “My co-worker picked up a 4-year-old girl and gave her to her parents.” Kids were getting trampled,” said Maxwell Gum, a 16-year-old pretzel stand employee. ![]() Witnesses recalled hearing dozens of shots as shoppers stampeded for shelter and store workers pulled people into backrooms and rolled down metal gates for protection. The gunman stepped out of a silver sedan on Saturday afternoon and started shooting people, cars and glass storefronts in a rain of bullets from an AR-15 style rifle - one of eight legally purchased firearms authorities said he brought to the mall.
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