A man armed with a gun shot down 20 people and wounded 26 others at a Walmart store in EL Paso, Texas on August 3. Panicked shoppers and employees looked for cover before the gunman surrendered to the police.
US President Donald Trump strongly condemned the shooting saying it was an “act of cowardice.”
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“Terrible shootings in ElPaso, Texas. Reports are very bad, many killed. Working with State and Local authorities, and Law Enforcement. Spoke to Governor to pledge total support of Federal Government. God be with you all!,” Trump tweeted.
“I know that I stand with everyone in this Country to condemn today’s hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people,” the president said.
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“Reports are very bad, many killed,” Trump said earlier on Saturday.
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The incident happened just six days after a teenage gunman killed three people at a summer food festival in Northern California.
Suspect Surrendered
Details of how the shooting unfolded were not immediately clear. But video footage from the scene showed victims lying on the ground inside and outside the store. One shopper told Reuters the gunshots sounded like they began outside the building.
Reuters
The suspect surrendered to police as officers closed in on him, and he was taken into custody without incident, authorities said. Video posted on social media appeared to show him being handcuffed by police and placed in a squad car.
The culprit in El Paso mass shooting was officially identified as a 21-year-old white male from Allen, Texas, a Dallas suburb some 650 miles (1,046 km) east of El Paso, which lies along the Rio Grande, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Ciudad Juarez.
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