She was shot by a sniper in 1966. The Las Vegas massacre brings her pain and anger about inaction
Steve Lopez
Irma Garcia did not go to work Monday.
She was too broken up about the Las Vegas shooting massacre, the deadliest in U.S. history. It brought back painful memories of another horrific rampage by a man with a rifle.
Garcia was a 21-year-old student at the University of Texas in 1966, when a Marine named Charles Whitman climbed a tower and began shooting. Sixteen people were killed and 31 wounded.
Garcia was shot through the shoulder, and the bullet exited near the middle of her back. A stranger dragged her to safety while the shots kept coming.
“Yes, this does bring it back,” she said Monday by phone from her home in Whittier, where the courtroom interpreter was watching the news with her husband at her side for support.
The death toll stood at nearly 60, with hundreds injured.
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