My goal was to kill as many Mexicans as possible.

"At this moment, we have a manifesto of this individual that indicates to a certain extent that he has a connection with a possible hate crime"The police chief of El Paso, Greg Allen, said at a press conference.

Verónica Escobar, representative of El Paso in the Congress, said that "The manifesto's narrative is fueled by hatred."

"And it is fueled by racism, intolerance and divisions," he added at a press conference with the city's mayor, Dee Margo, and the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott.

"El Paso has always been a very safe community," he said, adding that "the attacker" is someone who comes from outside our community to hurt us. . "

El Paso, on the Rio Grande (Bravo) that separates the United States and Mexico, has 680,000 inhabitants, 83% of whom are Hispanic, according to census data.

The city has registered an average of 18 homicides per year over the last five years and its violent crime rate is well below that of other US cities of similar size.

It's next to the Mexican Ciudad JuarezWith a population of 1.5 million and intense social and commercial exchanges, citizens come and go on both sides to work, study or commute to work.

In recent months, El Paso has also become one of the busiest entry points for undocumented immigrants, especially from Central America, asylum seekers in the United States.

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López ObradorHe said three Mexicans died in the incident, while the country's foreign ministry reported six wounded.

Crusius wrote that the attack "is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas" and alludes to the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, where a white man killed 51 worshipers by opening fire in a mosque in March.

He declared that he "defended" his country "against the cultural and ethnic replacement caused by an invasion".

He also complained that the AK-47 rifle that he had chosen "It was not designed to fire shells quickly, so it overheats long after a hundred successive shots."

To counter this, he said that he would wear a heat-resistant glove.

Crusius wrote that he had probably spent less than a month preparing for the shoot. "I have to do it before losing value," he said in the text.

Interestingly, the document includes a protest against automation and US companies. "The embarrbading truth is that our leaders, Democrats and Republicans, have let us down for decades," he said.

Then he says his death will be "probably inevitable": "If the police do not kill me, one of the invaders will probably shoot me."

"In this case, the capture is much worse than the death during the shooting, because I will still receive the death penalty," he added.

El Paso police said that there was no exchange of gunfire when Crusius had been arrested.

According to CNN, the manifesto was published in 8chan, an uncensored site where other extremist manifestos appeared.