By Manny Fernandez and Tamir Kalifa, The New York Times, November 20, 2019
Luis Calvillo has an angel on his shoulder.
The tattoo covers his left arm, the archangel Michael wielding a sword over howling demons. But Mr. Calvillo, 33, believes it was an angel he could not see who kept him alive that day in August.
It was a Saturday morning outside a Walmart in El Paso, and the soccer team he leads was selling snacks to raise money for an out-of-state tournament. One moment he was chatting with a fellow coach; the next, a man was spraying the outside of the store with gunfire, and Mr. Calvillo was on the ground, blood pouring from his leg. Several soccer parents were also shot. His father, Jorge Calvillo García, was killed.
“I never thought about anyone else,” Mr. Calvillo said. “I was just thinking that it was going to be the last time that I was going to breathe. The last time.”
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