SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019Twenty killed, 26 injured in US
shopping mall shooting
Suspect identified as 21-year-old with links to far-right
Police respond to the shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas (Getty)
ANDREW BUNCOMBE
IN SEATTLE
Authorities in Texas are quizzing a 21-year-old white man – suspected of posting a racist “manifesto” online
- believed to be responsible for a gun attack on a shopping centre that killed 20 people and which police
said was the “nexus of a hate crime”.
Video phone footage taken inside a mall in El Paso showed people running in fear for their lives after the
shooter entered a Walmart store with a semi-automatic weapon and opened fire. In addition to the 20
fatalities, at least two dozen people were injured in the latest incident of gun violence to scar the nation.
It appears the suspected shooter – named by multiple media accounts as Patrick Crusius – drove up to 10