Stories of some of the El Paso victims.

Couples died together. A man was killed during an outing with his beloved son. Another protected his wife and granddaughter before he was fatally shot.

A shooter on Saturday opened fire at a Walmart store in the Texas border city of El Paso, leaving 22 people dead and some two dozen injured.

Here are the stories of some of the victims:

When news broke that there had been a shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, family members called Leonardo “Leo” Cepeda Campos and Maribel Loya Campos to make sure they were OK. Initially, they weren’t worried when they didn’t hear back.

“We just thought they’d call us back,” Campos’ brother, David Campos, told the Associated Press on Tuesday.

But then, he said, one of her relatives tracked their phones by GPS to inside the Walmart. Authorities later told them that 41-year-old Leo Campos and 56-yearold Maribel Campos both died at the store.

David Campos said his brother had recently returned to college to complete his degree. He said the couple had been together for about two decades and were “just really welcoming and friendly.”

“Everybody says that as soon as you meet them, it’s like you’ve known them forever,” he said.

Leo Campos went to high school in the Rio Grande Valley area of South Texas. A statement from the PharrSan Juan-Alamo Independent School District said he graduated from high school there in 1996.

School Board President Jesse Zambrano said Campos was “a great athlete and friend to many” while in high school. Zambrano said Campos was a “role model to many athletes that looked up to him, including me.”

An account of self-sacrifice emerged Monday involving a grandfather who died in the mass shooting in El Paso, while his wife and granddaughter survived.

Stephanie Melendez said that her 63-year-old father, David Johnson, was shot and killed near the checkout counters at the Walmart where the attack took place. She credits Johnson with saving the life of her 9year-old daughter and his own wife by thrusting them to the floor below a counter and out of the way of gunfire before he was killed.

“He saved them,” Melendez said. “He pushed them underneath.” Johnson’s wife was unavailable to describe the events firsthand.

Raul Melendez believes his daughter’s life was saved by the actions of Johnson, but still worries about what she may have witnessed.

“I hope she didn’t get to see anything and that she’s not affected later on,” he said.

Co-workers of Johnson, a salesman, delivered flowers and food as family members gathered in mourning on Monday evening at a one-story home.

Arturo Benavides, a U.S. Army veteran who retired as a bus driver a few years ago, was checking out at the Walmart store when the gunman entered.

His niece, Jacklin Luna, told the Los Angeles Times that 60-year-old Benavides was among those killed. His wife, Patricia, was sitting on a nearby bench and was pushed into a bathroom for safety, Luna said.

Benavides, who was born and raised in El Paso, had worked as a bus driver for El Paso’s Sun Metro.

His nephew, Ruben Rojas, said Benavides was an “easygoing” man who enjoyed watching sports and was also a good Roman Catholic who went to Mass.

El Paso shooting victim Margie Reckard, 63, was “an angel” to Antonio Basco, her husband of more than two decades.

Basco told KFOX-TV that he and Reckard were together for 22 years, and her kindness and selflessness were incomparable.

“I mean you didn’t even have to be there to talk to her. You could just look at how she was, how she acted, how she presented herself. She was an awesome lady,” he said. “You see Margie, more or less, was the brains of the family.”

Basco said he and Reckard knew there was something between them as soon as they met, and their life together was like something out of a fairy tale. Reckard was the strong one, he said, and she’s “going to be missed a lot.”

“We were gonna live together and die together,” he said. “That was our plan.”

Raul and Maria Flores died as they lived: Together.

Married for 60 years, 83year-old Raul and 77-yearold Maria were rarely separated. With the man set for heart surgery on Monday, they had gone to Walmart to purchase airbeds for relatives who were expected to be in El Paso for the operation. They were fatally shot at the store.

Their oldest son, Raul Flores Jr., told the Washington Post he took comfort in knowing they were together when they died, even though they didn’t deserve to go that way.

“I tell myself, maybe it’s the Lord’s way of doing it,” Flores said. “Maybe He knew my father wasn’t going to make it during the surgery, and maybe He knew that if anything happened to my father, my mother would be destroyed. Maybe that’s why He decided to take them together.”

Both born in Mexico, the couple settled east of Los Angeles to raise their family and retired to El Paso about two decades ago.

Javier Amir Rodriguez, 15, was starting his sophomore year in high school when he was fatally shot at the store.

The Clint Independent School District, which identified the teen as being among the victims Monday, said he attended Horizon High School in El Paso.

The district said it had been in contact with his family and sent condolences. Valeria Chavez, a cousin of the youth, told KFOX-TV that Rodriquez was at the Walmart with an uncle who described what happened.

“He told me my cousin had made eye contact with the shooter and they were in the bank and as soon as the shooter walked in, he grabbed my cousin. He says he saw the shooter shoot him,” Chavez said.

The school district said counselors would be available, and a vigil was set for Monday night at the high school’s football stadium.

Ivan Manzano, who had a 5-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, was from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and ran a business that supplies orthopedic implants.

His wife, Adriana Manzano, learned from the FBI that he was killed in the shooting in the Walmart. She traveled to the Mexican consulate in El Paso on Monday to repatriate her husband’s body, and said he was known by everyone as friendly, calm — “very practical.”

Adriana Manzano said she has told her children only that their father had died in an “accident,” believing that giving a full explanation might generate resentments.

A relative in Ciudad Juarez who asked not to be named described Manzano as a loving son and father. The relative said that after Manzano’s mother had a heart attack in April and required surgery, he practically moved in with her to monitor her progress.

The relative said that on Saturday, Manzano and a friend had crossed the border to shop in El Paso.

Jordan Anchondo was among those killed in El Paso, Anchondo’s sister said, and she apparently died while protecting her 2month-old son from the hail of bullets.

Leta Jamrowski of El Paso spoke to the Associated Press as she paced a waiting room at the University Medical Center of El Paso, where her 2-monthold nephew was being treated for broken bones — the result of his mother’s fall.

“From the baby’s injuries, they said that more than likely my sister was trying to shield him,” she said. “So when she got shot she was holding him and she fell on him, so that’s why he broke some of his bones. So he pretty much lived because she gave her life.”

Jordan, a mother of three, and Andre Anchondo had dropped off her 5year old daughter at cheerleading practice before going to shop for school supplies Saturday at Walmart. They never returned.