A memorial including flowers and stuffed animals grew at the foot of a flagpole in front of the school. It included books and a soccer ball that all his classmates signed soccer was Laso’s favorite sport, said principal Pete Armstrong. On Monday, students in Laso’s third-grade class at Northside Elementary in Cleveland set up a small monument in his memory in their classroom. It is very difficult when she begins to ask for mama and for her (older) brother.” “I am trying to be strong for my children,” Garcia said, crying. Garcia said one of the women had told him to jump out a window “because my children were without a mother and one of their parents had to stay alive to take care of them.” The gunman seemed intent on killing everyone, Garcia said.Īlso among the dead were Garcia’s son, Daniel Enrique Laso, and two women who died while shielding Garcia’s baby and 2-year-old daughter. The house held 15 people in all, several of them friends who had been there to join Garcia’s wife on a church retreat. Garcia’s wife, Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25, was at the front door, and the first to die. The gunman walked up to the home and began firing. “My wife told me to go inside because ‘he won’t fire at me, I’m a woman.’” This man has loaded his weapon,” Garcia said. Five times the dispatcher assured that help was coming.Īnd then, 10 to 20 minutes after Garcia had walked back from Oropeza’s house, the man started running toward him, and reloading. His family continued to called police - five calls in all, Garcia said.
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