Juan F. Lopez, a high school teacher in Cypress, was attending a band competition with his family when he heard gunfire.
Juan F. Lopez was waiting in line with his family to see his stepson in a band performance at Pasadena Memorial High School on a February weekend when he heard the first shot.
Lopez, a 42-year-old robotics teacher at Cypress Ranch High School, said he quickly told his wife to grab their 7-year-old son and run while his mother-in-law got under the table with the ticket clerk. Lopez’s father-in-law, however, was in a motorized scooter and couldn’t get away in time on his own.
Lopez said he tried to grab the scooter to move his father-in-law, who fell to the floor. As he tried to help up his father-in-law, Lopez noticed someone was behind him…