Two El Paso dads saved soccer team kids, parents in chaotic aftermath of shooting: 'Thankfully, God protected us to be able to get them out of the scene.'
When Jimmy Villatoro and Ray Garcia heard that gunfire had erupted at an El Paso Walmart, both fathers said they dropped everything they were doing, jumped in their cars and raced to the store.
The attack was allegedly carried out by a 21-year-old man who, according to police, claimed he was out to kill as many Mexicans as he could in the U.S.-Mexico border town. "I arrive at the scene. The cops were just getting there. I park my truck, run to the middle of the parking lot, looking for the kids because the father told me, 'Find my family, find my kids,'" Villatoro said.
Villatoro said that once he made sure the children were out of harm's way, he went searching for their parents. He said he then searched for the mother another mom who had volunteered to work at the fundraiser. When he found her, she was wounded, too, he said.
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