El Paso Walmart shooting victim ‘gave her life’ shielding son: sister
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Several law enforcement agencies respond to an active shooter at an El Paso, Texas-based Walmart
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A young mom shot dead during the El Paso massacre was hit while shielding her baby boy, according to family.
Mom-of-three Jordan Anchondo, 25, was at the Texas Walmart Saturday shopping for school supplies when she was one of 20 killed — with her family still trying to find out whether her husband, Andre Anchondo, had survived, according to the dead woman’s sister.
Anchonda’s 2-month-old baby was not hit — but was still lucky to survive after getting crushed as his mother fell after getting shot dead, leaving him with broken bones.
“From the baby’s injuries, they said that more than likely my sister was trying to shield him,” grieving sister Leta Jamrowski, 19, said.
“So when she got shot she was holding him and she fell on him, so that’s why he broke some of his bones.
“So he pretty much lived because she gave her life.”
Jamrowski spoke while pacing a waiting room at the University Medical Center of El Paso, where her baby nephew is being treated — and where she still hopes her brother-in-law, Andre Anchondo, will emerge as one of more than two dozen injured.
“They said that if he were alive, more than likely he would have gotten in contact by now,” Jamrowski said.
The University Medical Center of El Paso said 13 people were brought to the hospital with injuries, including one who died. Two of the injured were children now being transferred to El Paso Children’s Hospital.
The Del Sol Medical Center was treating 11 others aged from 35 to 82, hospital spokesman Victor Guerrero said.
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