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 Paso’s Cielo Vista shopping mall, described as “El Paso’s 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 mall’s 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.
O’Rourke doesn’t know weapons. Guns don’t decide to kill people, people do. I can take an older style weapon and get the same results, so style means nothing. Cars, knives, fertilizers, etc. Are weapons, and O’Rourke will want those gone as well. Remember, weapons never decide to kill, only people.
No he didn’t. He said he spends 8 hours per day on a computer so that must mean he has “software experience”.
Sounds like a loser incel. No girlfriend, no life.
.... Why would a guy with the last name Mendez be concerned with an increase in the Latino population ....
These shootings are getting me to start thinking that this may be a strategy on the part of Left, with their goal being to exploit one of Trump’s few weaknesses, which is that he sometimes makes impulsive responses to the suffering and killing of innocent people. The obvious effect is to get more gun control through, but what they’re really after is driving a wedge between Trump and his supporters - by getting Trump to side with the Left on gun control just to ‘do something’.
Hopefully Trump continues to stand with the Second Amendment...but it’s got to be getting to him.
>Shooter says he’s a software developer.
Dangers of big silicon?
I wouldn’t pay ANY attention to any of the BS stories coming out until we hear from the Lt. governor of Texas, he will tell the absolute truth of the matter AND I don’t believe ONE WORD until he says it !!!!
re: “Jones said a false flag was coming.”
Yeah ... between now and the year 2525?
Jones is a con man. A self-promoter. Recommend please find another ‘oracle’ to follow ...
“Q” wrote something the other day....
Yeah, I know. I figured I would write it before someone else starts posting images of the “prophecy.”
My false flagdar is banging 100.
I thought this crap wasn’t supposed to happen in Texas because “everyone in Texas carries”.
Spot on with that observation; I reached that conclusion, as well.
If it is unconfirmed, then they shouldn't be reporting on it. Regardless, smells like a DS FF.
It is just as meaningless to say that as is it to say what the liberals are saying right now.
I’d sure like to know if he was on psychotropic meds.
“Herostratus”
Okay, you win the medal for most obscure reference in a post.
Pardon?
Please do explain.
I’ll grab my popcorn.
The man who set fire to the first temple of Diana at Ephesus so he would always be remembered. Supposedly happened the same day Alexander the Great was born.
His last name was Crusius. This is confusing as his name is Latino.
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