El Paso, Texas, shopping center gunfire leaves one dead and three injure
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Wednesday's shooting at a mall in El Paso, Texas, left one person dead and three more injured, adding to the scores of victims of mass shootings throughout the country this year. Although specifics on what caused the shooting are still unknown, El Paso police were able to arrest two of the accused.
The Cielo Vista Mall, according to interim police head Peter Pacillas, is still regarded as a crime scene and will be kept secure until officials have finished their inquiry. The threat was over, Pacillas insisted.
The shooting occurred in a crowded shopping center across from a vast parking lot from a Walmart where 23 people died in a racist assault on Hispanics in 2019 that targeted the store's patrons.
Over 700,000 people call El Paso home, most of them Latinos. El Paso is on the U.S.-Mexico border, where citizens from both nations routinely pass.
The shooting at the Cielo Vista Mall has brought back traumatic memories for many of them. The police have urged that anyone who needs; help can reach out to the city's crisis helpline. Pacillas said; the two people are now under judicial custody after Wednesday's shooting. All the victims of this shootout were males. All of them were in critical condition.
My Thoughts
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