8/12/2019

MASS SHOOTINGS/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “She was a young mother, busy juggling family dinners, cheerleading practices and trips to the park with her three small children. He was a self-starter who had opened his own business and spent months painstakingly renovating a house for his family, with three bedrooms and granite countertops in the kitchen. Before they became the latest faces of the toll of mass shootings in America — before their names were written on crosses at a memorial in El Paso, before their orphaned infant was held up in a photo opportunity with President Trump — Jordan and Andre Anchondo were just a young couple at the start of their lives together. They had recently had a baby boy, moved into their new home and celebrated their first year of marriage. A gunman with an AK-47-style rifle and a plan to hurt Mexicans changed all of that. While the couple was shopping at a Walmart store in El Paso, Andre Anchondo, 23, was killed jumping in front of the gunman; his wife, Jordan, 24, died shielding her infant son, relatives have said. They were among 22 people who were shot to death that day. The baby survived.”

Sarah Mervosh, “They Died Shielding Their Baby in El Paso. Their Family’s Anguish Was Only Beginning.,” The New York Times online, August 12, 2019