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Ruben Gutierrez did not hesitate. A day after his 7-year-old grandson’s good friend was gunned down in a classroom at their school, he took the boy right back to the small San Bernardino campus of North Park Elementary, even though school was closed.

He wanted the boy to see the flowers, the candles, the balloons, the love shown to his friend, 8-year-old Jonathan Martinez, and the teacher who was also killed. And he wanted him to have good associations with the place before it reopens next week.

“I thought it was important to get him down here today to see what’s going on, to see the community support,” Gutierrez said Tuesday. “To see that his school is safe. You know, it’s not a scary place to be, and just kind of help him process more and re-experience what happened to hopefully make this as healthy an experience as can be given the circumstances.”

Gutierrez’s grandson, Jeffrey Imbriani, had become friends with Jonathan, who was killed Monday morning when Cedric Anderson, a Navy veteran, walked into the special-education classroom of his wife Karen Smith, opening fire on her and striking Martinez and another student in the process.

Anderson, 53, fired off 10 shots from a .357 Magnum. Just a month into their marriage, Anderson had accused his wife of infidelity — though police say there is no evidence of that — and when reconciliation efforts failed, he shot and killed her, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said.

Smith told family members that Anderson had also threatened her after she moved out, but she didn’t take him seriously and thought he was just seeking attention, the police chief said. (AP)