Martin Garcia was cooking dinner Friday night when two terrified girls rang the doorbell. Confused but wanting to help, he let them in. And the people behind them. And the ones behind them. Before long, a steady stream of about 50 people were sheltering at the family’s house near Westfield Valley Fair.

He had no idea there just had been a shooting that injured three people. “My next thought was that they needed help,” he said. “I just let them in and then, oh my God, look at all these people running. I didn’t know when it would stop.”

He called his wife, Irene, who was out running errands with their two teenage sons, and told her to get home right away. Irene Garcia said when she walked in it was like a scene out of a movie. “Their faces looked like they had seen a ghost,” she said. “The

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