One person in custody after shooting in Cielo Vista shopping center, near Walmart where 23 people were killed in racist attack
Police in El Paso, Texas, say one person was killed and three other people were wounded in a shooting on Wednesday in a shopping mall.
One person has been taken into custody, El Paso police spokesperson Sgt Robert Gomez said. No immediate information was given about that person.
Continue reading...Man who allegedly killed 23 people in El Paso in 2019 still faces state-level murder charges and could be sentenced to death
The man who allegedly shot nearly two dozen people to death in a Walmart in Texas in 2019 plans to plead guilty to federal charges after the US government indicated it would not seek the death penalty against him.
Patrick Crusius, nonetheless, still faces state-level murder charges and could be sentenced to death if convicted in the El Paso mass shooting that targeted Mexicans and killed 23 people.
Continue reading...Emergency housing, food and other essentials had been set up in preparation for an influx of migrants at Texas border cities
Along the US southern border, two cities – El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez just across the waters of the Rio Grande in Mexico – were trying to prepare for a new surge of as many as 5,000 new migrants a day as pandemic-era immigration restrictions were set to expire this week, setting in motion plans for emergency housing, food and other essentials.
Even with the ruling from the US Supreme Court on Monday evening that the restriction known as Title 42 would not end after all, as had been ordered by a lower court, confusion and tension were high.
Continue reading...City’s new facility has to find shelters for those without alternative after a 40-year beacon of refuge shuttered earlier this year
Chairs and tables lined El Paso’s new Migrant Welcome Center in west Texas, where families who have crossed the US-Mexico border without immigration papers were meeting with volunteers and city employees, or making phone calls to loved ones elsewhere in the United States.
Children amused themselves in a designated play area, while their parents worked out where the next steps of their journey would take them and how they would get there.
Continue reading...Democratic presidential candidate says suspect who killed 22 people earlier this month was inspired by Trump’s rhetoric
The deaths of 22 people in the El Paso shooting earlier this month made clear “the real consequence and cost of Donald Trump”, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Sunday.
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Continue reading...When Jordan Ballard read that one of the victims of the El Paso massacre had few relatives and the public was invited to her funeral, the Los Angeles resident bought a plane ticket and flew to Texas.
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Continue reading...Donald Trump visited El Paso to meet survivors and members of the emergency services after 22 people were killed in a mass shooting in the city at the weekend.
Trump’s supporters rallied outside the hospital he visited, alongside people protesting against his visit who said his inflammatory rhetoric fuelled the shootings in the first place
Residents of El Paso demonstrated as Donald Trump arrived in the Texas city to pay tribute to the victims of one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent US history. With much of the president’s rhetoric reflected in the El Paso shooter’s anti-immigrant and racist essays, many felt the visit was ‘throwing salt on the wounds’ of a binational, largely Latinx community in mourning
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Donald Trump said he was 'concerned about the rise of any group of hate' and referred to white supremacists and anti-fascist activists. The US president was leaving to travel to Dayton and El Paso to meet with first responders, families and victims of the recent shootings when he said: 'Whether it’s any group or kind of hate ... I am concerned about it and I’ll do something about it'
Continue reading...Thousands of El Paso residents went to a baseball diamond in Ponder Park to pay tribute to the victims of Saturday’s mass shooting in Texas. And less than 24 hours after a masked gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio, hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects to the nine people who were killed and 27 injured there
Continue reading...Donald Trump faced a barrage of criticism on Sunday as the US reeled from a brutal mass shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, linked to white nationalism and anti-immigrant hate rhetoric.
A total of 20 people were killed in the majority Latino city, nestled in western Texas on the US-Mexico border, as federal authorities investigated a potential hate crime and local prosecutors charged a 21-year-old white man, Patrick Crusius, with murder and said they would pursue the death penalty.
Continue reading...At least 20 people are dead and 26 wounded after a gunman attacked a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Early reports indicated the attacker used a rifle, while police said a 'manifesto' circulated online indicated the shooting was a hate crime. El Paso's population is 80% Latino
Continue reading...Footage posted to social media shows people being evacuated during a mass shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas. A man armed with a rifle opened fire at the mall's Walmart store as families shopped for the start of the new school year, killing at least 20 and wounding 26 others.
At least 20 people have been killed after a shooter opened fire at a busy Walmart store packed with families shopping for the new school year in the Texas border city of El Paso, sending panicked shoppers fleeing.
Texas governor Greg Abbott said 20 people had been killed, and more than two dozen more were injured. Mexico’s President Manuel Lopez Obrador said three Mexicans were among the dead and six were among the wounded.
Continue reading...El Paso officials, aid workers and churches are scrambling to find shelter and legal counsel for a surge of Central American migrants
US authorities’ failure to keep up with a steep increase in Central American families seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border has left El Paso aid workers, churches and city government scrambling to respond.
After a sudden surge in arrivals, migrants have been crowded into hotels, churches and even held under a bridge behind a chain-link fence and razor wire while their asylum claims are processed.
Continue reading...Donald Trump and potential presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke held rallies in El Paso, Texas, on Monday night offering their contrasting views on Trump's US-Mexico border wall. The president addressed his crowd in front of a big US flag along with three 'finish the wall' banners. Meanwhile nearby, O'Rourke told supporters El Paso was, 'safe not because of walls but in spite of walls'.
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