BREAKING: Police official says he thinks most of the El Paso attack victims were shot at a Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall.
A law enforcement official says at least 15 people were killed in the attack at an El Paso shopping center and that the suspect who was taken into custody is a 21-year-old Dallas-area man named Patrick Crusius.
Authorities say the Walmart in El Paso where a gunman opened fire was packed with back-to-school shoppers. Sgt. Robert Gomez said at a news conference about five hours after the first reports emerged of a shooting near the mall that investigators believe a white man in his 20s was the only gunman involved and that he was taken into custody.
El Paso, which has about 680,000 residents, is in West Texas and sits across the border from Juarez, Mexico.A Walmart official says the company is trying to determine if there was gunfire inside one of its stores during a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. at or near the Cielo Vista Mall. He declined to provide additional details about the victims, including the one who died.
State Rep. Cesar Blanco said on MSNBC that he had received reports that at least 18 people had been shot.
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