Guatemala immigrants had previous run-in with neighbor who shot them

One of the seven people who were shot by a Nebraska neighbor over the weekend wasn’t sure her family would survive.

One of the seven people who were shot by a Nebraska neighbor over the weekend wasn’t sure her family would survive.

"I felt like this was the end," Maria Garcia Sanchez said about the shooting, which was so shocking to her that she wasn’t sure what was happening until she saw her 3-year-old grandson had been hit and sprang into action.

"I turned to see, and the guy was at the window of the house,” Sanchez said Tuesday. "I picked up the child, and I hugged him in front of me, and I protected him because he wasn’t even moving his foot or head. And when I saw the man was shooting another, I turned him so that it didn’t hit the kid and wouldn’t hurt him more. And so I turned him, and when I did, it got my arm. ... It hit my arm and my head."

A vehicle's window was damaged in the shooting of a Guatemalan family in Crete, Neb., which police said they are investigating as a possible hate crime.Chris Machian / Omaha World-Herald via APSanchez, her husband, her 3-year-old grandson, her 8-year-old daughter, her 23-year-old son-in-law and two school-age nieces were injured in the shooting at their home in Crete. All seven have been released from the hospital, police said.

"Right now, thank God, we are recovering a bit,” she said. "With pain, but coming along."

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