North Lake College gunman was stalking the woman he killed, her family says

A 20-year-old North Lake College student was killed at the Irving school by a man who was stalking her, her family says.

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Janeera Nickol Gonzalez was found shot to death in a common study area inside the Performance Hall building around noon Wednesday, shortly after the school went into lockdown because a shooter was reported on campus.

Officers found the body of the gunman, 21-year-old Adrian Victor Torres, inside a locker room shower stall in Building F, which is adjacent to the North Lake Aquatic Center. He had what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

Gonzalez's mother, Lucia Gonzalez, told WFAA-TV (Channel 8) that her daughter didn't see Torres as a threat.

"He had been stalking her for quite a while, but she didn't make anything of it," she said.

Lucia Gonzalez said her daughter hadn't dated Torres and that the two weren't friends. She told KTVT-TV (Channel 11) that Torres had left North Lake to attend school elsewhere, but had returned to the school in the past few weeks.



Witnesses told the family that Torres had walked up to Gonzalez and yelled at her before shooting: "You know who I am, and you know why I am here."

The Gonzalezes said their daughter, who was studying kinesiology, was going to graduate in the coming weeks. They went to North Lake to look for her when she didn't respond to text messages Wednesday afternoon.

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