'Traumatizing' Buffalo massacre strikes a chord with families who have lost loved ones to racist mass shootings

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For Tito Anchondo, the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, reopens wounds that never completely healed. Anchondo lost his brother and sister-in-law to the 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

The Latino couple was victimized by the same racist-fueled gun violence that left 10 people dead at the Tops Friendly Markets store last Saturday in a predominately Black neighborhood of Masten Park.Brother and sister Tito Anchondo and Deborah Anchondo at Color Master Paint & Body Shop Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at 120 North Piedras Street in El Paso. Tito and Deborah's brother, Andre Anchondo, was killed Aug. 3, 2019, when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart.

"It bothers me that there is another family that's going through what I went through," Thompson told CNN."Because I know it's terrible, it's hard and rough to go through that."Thompson said he still cries and reminisces on what life was like with his wife. But he's found peace in forgiving the White supremacist shooter Dylan Roof.

 

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