LIBRARY SHOOTING HERO ID'D: THANK YOU DORA BEATRIZ FLORES-HERNANDEZ! YOU WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND!

Aracelia Marivel Flores commented on "DO YOU KNOW WHO THIS HERO OF THE MAIN LIBRARY SHOOTING IS?"

She is my sister, Dora Beatriz Flores-Hernandez, she is a dedicated & proud City of Brownsville employee for more than 10+ years.

It was just before noon this past Saturday that a man (later identified as 33-year-old Humberto Paz) sitting at a table in the Readers Mark Cafe in the lobby of the Brownsville Main Branch Library shot a man across the table (identified as 71-year-old Vahid Khaled) in the head and killed him with a Ruger. The explosive thunder clap shattered the relative quiet of the library. Horrified parents and frightened children sought a way out.

The rushing patrons were evacuated by a very businesslike female library employee who was urging them to hurry, buy not to run or panic. As they approached three computer users by the rear emergency door, one of them pointed to the bar running across the middle of the door of the emergency exit and asked with his eyes whether they should open it: she nodded vigorously and signaled "yes" with her eyes, and the people followed her streaming out and ran toward Central Boulevard and congregated in a bus shelter next to the street. But she didn't stay safely with them.

Sirens could be heard in the distance, but the police hadn't arrived. The woman librarian then went back into the building, despite knowing that there was a dead man on the floor and his killer was still inside. She was seen again at the entrance (She can be seen halfway through the rear door door in the a red Polo and jeans) at the emergency exit going into the building again and guiding panic-streaking patrons outside who didn't know which way to run.

Unmindful of the fact (or perhaps fully knowing) that if the gunman had headed toward the emergency exit, she would be in his – and the policeman's – line of fire. (She's seen walking back toward the door in the picture above). Shortly after, the library parking lot was full of police units and soon after officers were  seen emerging the from the library's side door facing Veterans Park with the shooter in custody.

Military veterans in the initial group she had helped outside the building immediately after the shot rang out and were gathered outside by a bus shelter on Central Blvd wondered aloud whether they would have gone in knowing that there was a man with a gun inside who had just shot another to death. 

Dora did not hesitate. She repeatedly went back in the building to help stragglers out of danger Thank you, Dora, and God Bless you for your courageous actions that day.