Residents of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, as well as citizens across the country, are still reeling in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend that left 29 people dead and many more injured in less than 24 hours.

Now, heartbreaking stories of the victims are starting to emerge. Like that of 25-year-old Jordan Anchando who went to the El Paso Walmart with her husband, Andre, and their two-month-old infant to buy school supplies for their older daughter. Anchando’s sister, Leta Jamrowski, told NBC News that she believes her sister died trying to protect her baby boy. “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.”

“She’d give anything for those kids, anything, even her life,” Jamrowski told NBC’s Lester Holt.

Elizabeth Terry told CNN that the couple had just celebrated their first wedding anniversary and stopped at the store after dropping off their five-year-old at cheer practice. Jesse Jamrowski said that Andre jumped in front of his wife who was shielding the baby—he also died from his injuries. (The couple also had a two-year-old.)

“The baby still had her blood on him. You watch these things and see these things and you never think this is going to happen to your family,” Terry told CNN. “How do parents go school shopping and then die shielding their baby from bullets?”

The baby survived with a few fractured fingers, according to CNN, and is now at home with family members.

“She had the most contagious smile and laugh,” Terry told CNN of Jordan. “We lost the light of our family and the light of our heart.”

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