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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Cindy Ramirez, El Paso Matters

“I think of them always,” survivor of El Paso Walmart shooting says of those who were killed three years ago

Jamie hugs her son, Julian, as they visit the Healing Garden for the first time on Wednesday. Jamie worked at a bank inside Walmart in 2019 and witnessed the shooting just weeks before Julian was born.
Jamie hugs her son, Julian, as they visit the El Paso County Healing Garden memorial at Ascarate Park for the first time on July 27. Jamie worked at a bank inside Walmart in 2019 and witnessed the shooting just weeks before Julian was born. (Credit: Corrie Boudreaux/El Paso Matters)

EL PASO — An ominous cloud of white gun smoke, bloody police boot prints and an empty baby carrier on the body of Jordan Anchondo are images that will forever live in Jamie’s mind.

She can still hear the agonizing cries of men, women and children who had just seen their loved ones and complete strangers gunned down — including a heart wrenching “Noooo!” from Octavio Ramiro Lizarde, whose nephew, Javier Amir Rodriguez, was among those killed in the Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting in El Paso.

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