ICYMI: Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting in a busy shopping area in the Texas border town of El Paso, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said.
“I heard the shots but I thought they were hits, like roof construction,” she said.
Police said by midafternoon that a suspect was in custody and the public was no longer in danger. Gomez said the suspect, who used a rifle, was arrested without incident. Police believe he was the “sole shooter” but are continuing to investigate reports that others were involved.The mass shooting in El Paso came less than a week after a gunman opened fire on a California food festival.
People walk into an elementary school to look for loved ones near the site of a shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. Several people were killed in the shooting Saturday in a busy shopping area in the Texas border town. The Democrat said he heard early reports that the shooter might have had a military-style weapon, saying we need to “keep that on the battlefield and do not bring it into our communities.”
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