By El Paso Matters Staff, El Paso Matters Nearly six years have passed since a gunman motivated by racism and white supremacist ideology killed 23 people and injured dozens more at the Cielo Vista Walmart on Aug. 3, 2019. In April 2025, the man who carried out the attack left an El Paso courtroom for the final time, sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a Texas prison. But the pain he inflicted did not leave with him.

“Our lives will never be the same,” said Misty Jamrowski, whose daughter Jordan Anchondo and son-in-law Andre Anchondo were killed while shielding their infant son. Her words were among dozens of impact statements delivered by victims and families during a two-day hearing that offered the community a measure of legal closure.  However, the call for remembrance of the vi

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