A young man killed 20 people in El Paso, Texas with a rifle

A rifle attack recorded at a shopping center in the border town of El Paso, Texas, resulted in at least 20 deaths and the author was arrested. The brutal mbadacre once again revived the debate over the sale and possession of firearms in the United States. The young badailant used a war rifle AK-47 or similar. There were many serious injuries. A "hate crime", of a racist nature, was the subject of an investigation, because the author of the mbadacre would have written a text on the Internet that would give rise to this hypothesis. The young man is a Dallas white man. In addition, the attacked site is very popular with Mexican or American citizens of this origin.

Two police officers identified the detainee as Patrick Crusius, 21, of Dallas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said at least 20 people were killed and 26 injured in Walmart, home to the Sky Vista shopping center. Not. El Paso police announced that Crusius had been arrested after the attack. El Paso's police chief, Greg Allen, said that "hate crime" was one of the possibilities of the motive that the attacker could have had. Allen said that when the police arrived at the scene, the badailant dropped his arms and surrendered. The police chief added that they were investigating whether a writing published on the Internet describing a possible hate crime matched Crusius.

Most of the victims of the attack were in a chain of Walmart stores near the Cielo Vista shopping center in El Paso, near Interstate 10 in the eastern part of the city and about 4.5 kilometers from the Mexican border.

Sergeant Robert Gomez of the El Paso police said at a press conference that there were about 3,000 people in the store, due to the shopping season for back to school . "This is an unprecedented phenomenon in El Paso," said Gomez, adding that many victims had sustained injuries that could cost them their lives. The list of the dead quickly rose from 15 to 20 at dusk, precisely because of the severity of the wounds of many survivors.

The police responded to an emergency call around noon that alerted a man who was shooting at the complex. Authorities sent alerts to the community asking them to stay away from the area and look for family members at a school used as a meeting point. Police and witnesses indicated that at least some of the photos had been recorded at the Walmart store.

Ryan Mielke, a spokesman for the El Paso University Medical Center, said one of 12 people who were brought to the scene after the death of the attack. Five others would die later. Mielke added that two children, aged two and nine, had been "stabilized" at the medical center before being transferred to the nearby El Paso Children's Hospital. The spokesman refused to give more details about the wounded and the deceased. According to hospital spokesman Victor Guerrero, 11 other people received medical care at the Del Sol medical center, explaining that the victims were between 35 and 82 years old.

El Paso, with a population of about 680,000, is located in southwestern Texas, just across Mexico's border with Ciudad Juarez. The presidential candidate and former Texas congressman, Beto O 'Rourke, was shocked yesterday in Las Vegas when he went to a forum of candidates shortly afterwards. announce the news of the shooting in his hometown. O 'Rourke said that he had called his wife before going on stage. The Democrat explained that he had heard initial versions that the official could have had a military-style weapon. He added that it was necessary to keep these weapons "on the battlefield and not bring them to our communities".

Yesterday, social networks were inflamed with the everlasting debate over weapons, which the Constitution guarantees possession in the United States, but which causes repeated murders, such as El Paso.