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| Shopping Center in Texas |
- 20 people were killed in the shooting.
- Officials are looking for charges of capital assassination.
- Authorities are investigating a manifesto regarding the shooting.
- Twenty-six were injured.
Walmart employees responded through the Associated Press after being shot by an active shooter at the store in El Paso credit Mark Lambie / The El Paso Times
20 people were killed in the shooting.
EL PASO - According to Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a gunman who shot Saturday in a shopping center in El Paso killed 20 people and injured 26 others.
Police said one suspect, Allen, Tex. In the 20th, a white man was in custody, and the gunman fired AK-47 style rifle in a crowded Wal-Mart store, to which the nervous shopkeeper fled. Authorities said the gunman surrendered to police.
Several officers identified the gunman as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius.
The shootout on Saturday in El Paso began shortly before 11 am, near Cielo Vista Mall in a popular commercial district with scores of restaurants and shops that are often crowded on weekends. Walmart packed near Hawkins Boulevard and Gateway Boulevard West at a short distance from the mall.
A police officer interviewed a witness who was inside Walmart where a gunman fired Saturday.
Officials are looking for charges of capital assassination.
El Paso Police Department chief Greg Allen said that the officials are looking for allegations of possible capital assassination for suspects.
The FBI is currently reviewing evidence to determine whether to proceed with federal charges, but Special Agent Emmerson Bui Jr. said the FBI had not determined whether the shooting was a hate crime, another federal crime or An act is domestic terrorism. Currently, the case is a state murder investigation.
Authorities are investigating a manifesto regarding the shooting.
According to the local law enforcement officer the law enforcement officer is studying an anti-immigrant manifesto to determine if it was written by the gunman, who has been informed on the investigation. Given the Declaration's racial extremist views, it could make the murders a federal hate crime or an act of domestic terrorism if authorities determine it is tied to the shootings.
It announces support for the gunman who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, underlined the fear of Hispanic people getting power in the United States, and discussed specific details about the elements of attack including weapons. Appears to do.
The manifesto states, "Hispanics will control the local and state government of my beloved Texas, so that a better policy can be tailored to their needs." "It states that politicians in both parties are to blame the United States for" rotting from the inside out ", but" the overwhelmingly Hispanic population in Texas will make us a Democrat stronghold. "
Twenty-six were injured.
Officials said that at least 26 people were injured in the attack. Mexico's foreign affairs secretary Marcelo Eberard said six Mexican citizens were among the injured. Mr. Eberd identified by three names: Mario de Alba Montes, 45; Olivia Marical Rodriguez, 44; And Erica de Alba Maricel, 10.
Local hospitals are treating patients from the scene. Del Sol Medical Center spokesman Victor Guerrero said that the hospital was treating 11 victims. He said that nine were in serious and stable condition and two were stable. The patient was 35 to 82 years old.
According to hospital spokesman Ryan Milleke, the University Medical Center of El Paso received 13 patients. He said that two minors, including two minor, were frozen and shifted to El Paso Children's Hospital. Mr Mileke said the condition of the victims ranged from minor injuries to fatalities.
Witnesses described the violent scene.
"We heard shots and saw smoke," said Victor Gamboa, who works inside an 18-year-old McDonald's Walmart store. "I saw a man full of blood on the floor. He appeared dead. It's too early. "
Mr. Gambo said that within Walmart he and other McDonald's workers gave shelter to keep the customers safe and hired them for 15 minutes. Officers eventually arrived and took the group across the street to Sam's Club Store.
The 20-year-old Manuel Urucherto had paid in the Walmart Register at 10:36 a.m. and when he was coming out of the shop door after hearing the shots.
As Mr. Uruchartu fled the store with a crowd of people, he saw two bodies outside on the ground, one soaked in blood.
"I saw people crying: Children, old people, all in shock," Mr. Uruchartu said.
Uruchartu said, "I saw a child, who was six to eight months old, had blood in his stomach." "It was crying and weeping. Fortunately it was still alive. "
El Paso has been at the center of the migrant crisis.
For months, El Paso was in the national headlines because thousands of Central American families had flooded the city and the surrounding areas.
The waves of migrants, and the Trump administration's difficulty providing them with shelter and medical care, have attracted the attention of President Trump and Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates. El Paso is a majority-Hispanic city of 682,000, which has long experienced a binomial because of its proximity and relationship with its sister city, Mexico, Ciudad Juarez.
Officials expressed their sympathy.
Mr. Trump has been told about the shooting, and Trump administration officials were monitoring the situation.
"Horrific shootings in El Paso, Texas," Mr. Trump said on Twitter. "The report is very bad, many have died."
He pledged "total support of the federal government" to state and local officials, and spoke about the shooting with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who was the head of the attack scene Saturday afternoon, calling it "a heinous and insensitive" said. In a statement the act of violence ”.
Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic presidential candidate who represented El Paso in Congress for years, canceled the events of his campaign in Nevada and California. Speaking on the Las Vegas Candidates forum on Saturday before leaving for El Paso, Mr. O'Rourke said he told the audience: "There is a lot of hurt and suffering in El Paso right now. El Paso is the strongest place in the world. Is. I'm going to live with my family and stay with my hometown. "
Julian Castro called for a national attack on weapon bans and universal background checks during an on-air interview with CNN. Mr. Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio, strongly opposed the argument that mass firing could have been prevented if more people were able to carry guns. "Such shooters are using weapons of war that are not in the streets of America," he said.
Simon Romero from El Paso, Manny Fernández from Houston, and Merrill Pédélla reported from New York. Reporting was contributed by Arturo Rubio, Erin Culehan and John Leo de Frank from El Paso; Alan, Tex. From Patrick McGee; David Montgomery from Austin, Tex .; Katie Benner from Washington; And Stephanie Saul, Nicholas Bogel-Burrows, Patrick Healey, Derrick Bryson Taylor and Jacob Meschke of New York. Jack Baig contributed to the research.