“My son, he died because he was defending his mother,” said Wilson Garcia, whose wife and son were among 5 killed in a Texas mass shooting this weekend. “When he saw her on the floor, he ran towards her, and that man had no compassion,” Garcia said.
CLEVELAND, Texas — Members of a Texas family, allegedly attacked by a neighbor using an AR-15 rifle, called 911 five times and waited 20 minutes for deputies to come to their aid, a grieving father said.
Clockwise from top left, Julisa Molina Rivera, 31, Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18, Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25, and her son Daniel Enrique Laso, 9, and Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21.Garcia and three other men were playing a parlor game outside the house in Cleveland, Texas, about 45 miles north of Houston, when his wife told him their month-old son was crying because of gunfire coming from Oropesa's home.
Garcia said he and the three other men went to Oropesa’s home and"respectfully" asked him to curtail or move his target practice. As Oropesa allegedly approached their house, Garcia said he urged his wife to take cover inside but the woman stood her ground. The father tearfully recalled one of the victims urging him to flee as soon as his wife, Guzman, was gunned down.
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