A mail carrier nearing the end of her shot was among those killed in West Texas shooting


A mail carrier nearing the end of her shot was among those killed in West Texas shooting

The Odessa Police Department on Sunday identified the man who also wounded 22 people in the shooting spree Saturday in West Texas as Seth Ator, 36. He was killed by police.

The people killed ranged in age between 15 and 57, authorities said.

Granados was on the phone with her twin sister, Rosie, when Granados said she heard a gunshot, the surviving twin said. Then, Granados started screaming.

“It was very painful. I just wanted to help her, and I couldn’t. I thought she had got bitten by a dog or something,” Rosie Granados said sobbing in a phone interview with CNN. “I tried calling her name and she wouldn’t answer.”

The gunman hijacked Granados’ mail vehicle, said Silvia Torres, a spokeswoman with the USPS Inspection Service.

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Rosie knew her sister’s route and went looking for her, she said. Within 15 minutes, she found her sister. The police were already there.

“She was laying on the floor when I got there. She was already gone,” she told CNN in an interview from her home. “I just wanted to run to her and hug her … kiss her.”

“We are all broken. We are all suffering,” Rosie Granados said. “She was very friendly and was always smiling.”

She said Granados’ cats have been yowling for her.

The shooter hijacked a USPS vehicle. The postal service said the vehicle was driven by Mary Granados.

The Granados sisters moved from Juarez, Mexico, to Odessa when they were 14. Granados worked for the US Postal Service for about a year, her sister said.

The USPS Inspection Service confirmed Granados’ death.

Granados loved to travel with her boyfriend and spend time with her family.

She didn’t feel well on Saturday but still went to work, her sister said.

Mckayla Salcido’s doorbell camera captured Granados delivering the mail to her home in Odessa more than three hours before the shooting. It is one of the last known images captured of Granados before she was killed.

Granados was nearing the end of shift when she was killed, her sister said.

“It’s hard for me,” said Rosie Granados, who is three minutes older, “because she’s my twin.”

She said the two “were like one”

“And now a part of me is missing,” she said. “And I wish I could have it back, but I just can’t.”

Jason Morris reported from Odessa. Darran Simon and Amanda Jackson reported and wrote from Atlanta. CNN’s Andrea Diaz, Faith Karimi and Ed Lavandera contributed to this report.


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