She has a hard time holding back tears when she tells what it was like to see some of the victims' families at a school where they collect grants to support them.
The sun is setting, but people continue to flock to this gathering place in front of Walmart. You come here to feel. Let the emotions come out. One of those who has not been able to get here until now is Shawn Nixon. He was here last Saturday. To shop at Walmart.
Shawn would buy pens for the start of the school when he heard the first shots.
- It was pang, pang, pang, and then it started again. An elderly woman next to me told me to throw myself down on the floor. We did. Then I heard a little boy cry. I held his hand and tried to comfort. We managed, but I wonder why we were spared when the others were killed.
Shawn went to a therapist today, who said it would be good to go back here if he could. To let go of the emotions. Soon, President Trump will come here. During Wednesday he will visit both the mass shootings of Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas. But he can expect a lukewarm reception here, where so many "Hispanics" can't forget how he talked badly about Mexicans.
- What is Trump going to do here? It's still so emotional here. No good idea to come here now, says Fred Gonzales who has come here with his son, who begins to cry when I ask him how he talks about this with his friends.
- It's okay, says dad Gonzales, it's good that the feelings come out. And that we can talk about this. That is why we are here tonight.
Want Trump to seeCerissa Cuellar, who wears an "El Paso Strong" t-shirt, as well as the 2-year-old she holds in her arms, on the other hand, thinks it's just as good that Trump comes here.
- Let him see how many we are who stand up for El Paso, that we Latinos are the only big family that only gets stronger from this.