MENTOR, Ohio (WOIO) – It’s been one year since an active shooter opened fire at Mentor Green Mobile Estates in Mentor.

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Four people died that day, including the gunman who took his own life.

For the 90-year-old mobile home park resident who lived just two doors down from the shooter, Nov. 16, 2023, will always haunt him.

The resident asked 19 News not to use his name. But he says a neighbor who saved his life witnessed him being shot when he went out to help 62-year-old property manager Laura Colon, who later died from her injuries: “The neighbor came out and looked at him and wanted to see him and see if he was still alive. So he went out and “When he looked up he had been shot. I was inside his trailer and it really scared me, so I went down and didn’t know what was going on or when it was going to end.”

Gunman Jason Norris, 47, who lived in trailer 84, had received an eviction notice earlier in the day. His actions led to the death of the property manager and two other residents, 63-year-old Terrance Mathis, Sr. and cost Thomas Galiza his life. The other injured man was hospitalized for a short time and discharged.

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At least 30 residents of the mobile home park were evacuated for their own safety and multiple SWAT teams were called to assist.

Mentor Police and first responders who arrived on scene that day saved lives. Police arrived on scene just two minutes after the initial 911 call.

The 90-year-old resident who still lives there says he was in his car when the property manager was killed, and to this day he doesn’t know why he didn’t leave the park. However, his neighbor saw him and took him to his trailer, where he stayed safe.

But even a year after the shooter’s fatal tragedy, trailer 84 remains in the possession of Mentor Green Mobile Estates. The windows were still shattered from gunfire; A painful and disturbing memory of a tragedy that changed lives forever.

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