Op-Ed: My sisters and the long, terrifying shadow of mass violence

Credit Young and old visit a makeshift memorial honoring victims outside the Walmart in El Paso near the scene of an Aug. 6 mass shooting that left at least 22 dead.(Mario Tama / Getty Images)

By Stacy Torres

Aug. 11, 2019

In the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso, the deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern U.S. history, my attention seized on the living as much as the dead. I couldn’t shake images of children running across a Walmart parking lot fleeing for their young lives. According to one witness, a young girl ran to a car and frantically (and successfully) tried to open the door. “You could just see the terror in her face,” she said.

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