Couples, parents, friends among the dead in shootings - Bowen Island Undercurrent
Aug 31, 2019A man was killed during an outing with his beloved son. Another protected his wife and granddaughter before he was fatally shot.A shooter on Saturday opened fire at a Walmart store in the Texas border city of El Paso , leaving 22 people dead and some two dozen injured. Hours later, at an entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio , another gunman killed nine people and injured more than two dozen others. article continues below Trending Stories Here are the stories of some of the victims:EL PASO, TEXASLEO AND MARIBEL CAMPOS: RELATIVES TRACKED THEM TO SHOOTING SCENEWhen news broke that there had been a shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, family members called Leonardo "Leo" Cepeda Campos and Maribel Loya Campos to make sure they were OK. Initially, they weren't worried when they didn't hear back."We just thought they'd call us back," Campos' brother, David Campos, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.But then, he said, one of her relatives tracked their phones by GPS to inside the Walmart. Authorities later told them that 41-year-old Leo Campos and 56-year-old Maribel Campos both died at the store.David Campos said his brother had recently returned to college to complete his degree. He said the couple had been together for about two decades and were "just really welcoming and friendly.""Everybody says that as soon as you meet them, it's like you've known them forever," he said.Leo Campos went to high school in the Rio Grande Valley area of South Texas. A statement from the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District said he graduated from high school there in 1996.School Board President Jesse Zambrano said Campos was "a great athlete and friend to many" while in high school. Zambrano said Campos was a "role model to many athletes that looked up to him, including me."DAVID JOHNSON: FATHER WHO SAVED WIFE AND GRANDDAUGHTERAn account of self-sacrifice emerged Monday involving a grandfather who died in the mass shooting in El Paso, while his wife and granddaughter s...