El Paso, Dayton shooting victims include mom who died protecting baby

[bronxiteforever]

by: MORGAN LEE and AMY GUTHRIE, Associated Press
Posted: Aug 4, 2019 / 05:36 PM EDT / Updated: Aug 4, 2019 / 05:40 PM EDT

NICHOLAS CUMER: HAD HELPED CANCER PATIENTS
A graduate student at a university in Pennsylvania who was interning with a Dayton facility for people battling cancer was among those killed in the Ohio city early Sunday.
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Lois Oglesby, 27, was in nursing school and looked forward to a career that would make the most of her love for children, her cousin said. She was also the mother of a newborn and had an older daughter. Derasha Merrett told the Dayton Daily News that she was up feeding her own newborn when afriend called her at 3 a.m. Sunday to tell her, through sobs, that Oglesby had died in the Dayton shooting.

...Jessica Coca Garcia and Memo Garcia were at the Walmart in El Paso to raise funds for a youth sports team one of their children played on when a gunman opened fire, wounding them, a relative says. Norma Coca told Wichita, Kansas-television station KWCH that her daughter and son-in-law were near the front doors of the Walmart when they were shot.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/national/el-paso-dayton-shooting-victims-include-mom-who-died-protecting-baby/


Part of the GOP playbook is to get us to forget their names and lives. Also call it a massacre not a mass shooting. A mass shooting sounds antiseptic. A Massacre is what it is. Merriam Webster defines it as the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty. It was a massacre committed with guns.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. the republicans know what a massacre is.

They just don't like the optics of using that word, but it's been people like them that have perpetuated massacres against non-whites all thru US history.

[bronxiteforever]

2. +1 that is so true.