Posted on 08/03/2019 2:30:40 PM PDT by robowombat
El Paso Walmart Shooting: What is Known So FarCC BY 2.0 / Tony Webster / Police Line / Police Tape US
23:57 03.08.2019(updated 00:12 04.08.2019) Get short URL120
A mass shooting took place on Saturday in El Pasos Cielo Vista shopping mall, described as El Pasos main shopping destination. At least 20 people are said to have been confirmed dead at the site but reports vary. AT 11:03 local time, the El Paso Police Department tweeted that officers were responding to an active shooter situation. The massacre is said to have taken place inside the malls Walmart store.
Police confirmed multiple fatalities, but the exact number of victims remains unclear.
At least 22 people have been hospitalized and 9 people in critical but stable condition, according to CBS News. One patient is reportedly 4 months old.
The suspected shooter is in police custody and the scene is said to be no longer active but police cordoned off the area and have asked citizens to stay away. Earlier reports indicated multiple shooters, but police said they do not believe these reports to be true.
The suspect has been reportedly identified as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius.
The shooter used an AK-style assault rifle and ear protection earphones, as seen on CCTV footage screenshot published online.
The mall and adjacent buildings have been evacuated, and Cielo Vista shops are on lockdown.
Agents from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are working at the scene. According to OSI News, the white male shooter allegedly posted a manifesto, in which he declared that the shooting was motivated by his fear of increasingly large numbers in the Hispanic population due to illegal immigration.
In the purported document, the shooter supported the Christchurch shooting, and condemned Democrats and Republicans for failing to tackle the immigration problem, but claim that Democrats adhere to a particularly pro-immigration agenda, while Republicans remain divided.
The authenticity of the manifesto is unconfirmed.
The shooting has been condemned by US President Donald Trump, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Democratic Presidential Candidate Beto O'Rourke, who was born and raised in El Paso.
My senses are telling me that there is a LOT more to this story! From what I have seen of his background, I would not be surprised if it ends up that he has developmental disorders and that someone groomed him to commit this act. I desperately would like to know if this ‘manifesto’ was published from an IP linked to him, or if it came from a VPN.
My senses are telling me that there is a LOT more to this story! From what I have seen of his background, I would not be surprised if it ends up that he has developmental disorders and that someone groomed him to commit this act. I desperately would like to know if this ‘manifesto’ was published from an IP linked to him, or if it came from a VPN.
I used to live in El Paso. That walmart and mall is pretty much across the border, most plates in lot are Mexican, and no one speaks English at the store. This, yes, only a minority of shoppers there will be American citizens. And note that know one was armed, likely because they were legal to do so.
And sorry for iPad autocorrect that mucks up the spelling...
Not true, Reno.
I have friends who live in EP. They happen to shop at this Walmart. They speak English, as do many of the other shoppers and employees.
This store is NOT ‘across the border’, nor is everyone spanish speaking. Yes, many Chihuahua plates....ALL OVER EL PASO.
Please don’t state as facts, things that you obviously don’t know about.
Military should be defending our borders from invasions so citizens aren’t provoked into vigilante actions...
Whatever. You did not live there, I did. My wife grew up there, we dated there, I go married there. Yes, a few people speak English, a vast majority do not. Not sure what you are worked up about. It is not relevant to shooting except as a possible reason no one was carrying a concealed weapon to respond to the shooter. I dont think Walmart is gun free, maybe the mall across the street is.
the one time I visited El Paso everyone spoke spanish...
this was a couple of decades ago....I noticed there was some very poor shanty town type housing.....otoh, everyone we met was very nice...
This guy blamed more Dems than trump - let’s see if the Dems chastise themselves for ‘causing this nut to go nuts” like they do when a leftist blames Trump...
Alex Horsesh*t Jones, Kardashian clan, Al Sharpton, Michael Moore, or whatever.... ...be careful....
The world is full of charlatans, schemers, scammers...31 flavors of unsavory people. Be careful.
Let’s try this again with the self-promoters:
Alex Horsesh*t Jones, Kardashian clan, Al Sharpton, Michael Moore, or whatever.... ...be careful....
The world is full of charlatans, schemers, scammers...31 flavors of unsavory people. Be careful.
Not getting the point; I see nothing incongruent with the above.
We might be in what is called “violent agreement”.
Wouldn’t it make sense that if ‘Q’ knew about it beforehand, he might have been in on the planning?
But dont all the Q-tippers believe Q is someone close to Trump?
Oops. Maybe Q is a false flagger who isn’t going where one & all go, after all.
Or maybe Q issues vague predictions that can be “interpreted” only after something happens that can now be interpreted to have been what you think he probably meant.
If you catch my drift.
My thoughts as well. And orchestrated in tandem with, at the very least, his Antifa friends.
For now he’ll be a “political prisoner.”
“I’m amazed the nut was able to get off so many rounds without being taken out, in Texas.”
Any shopper who *was* prepared to shoot back may have hesitated, not wanting to risk taking out innocents who were running every which-a-way.
But it’s interesting to note the MSM’s merging of the Texas/Ohio narratives.
They’re already hollering Nine Dead In Ohio & dozens wounded *despite* the good guy with a gun’s arrival within one minute.
It’s those assault rifles, see? they’re saying. The Second Amendment was only about muskets! they’re saying.
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