This weekend has been a sad one for the US as two mass shootings left 29 people dead and dozens injured…
The first shooting was on Saturday in El Paso, Texas which is near the border of Mexico. The second was in the early hours of Sunday in Ohio.
The shooting in El Paso was at a Walmart store which killed twenty people and 26 injured. It was described as “one of the most deadly days in the history of Texas”. The attack happened at 10:30 local time on Saturday and thousands of people were at the store that day. A 21-year-old man remains in custody and . Police said the suspect lived in Allen, Dallas, which is about 650 miles from El Paso. Police were on the scene in six minutes of the incident being reported.
El Paso police chief, Greg Allen, said: “Right now we have a manifesto from this individual, that indicates to some degree, it has a nexus to potential hate crime,”.
Allen also said the suspect had driven the nine hour journey to do the attack and he has been named as Patrick Crusius. An El Paso police spokesperson, Robert Gomez, estimated there were up to 3000 customers and 100 staff in the store at the time of the shooting.
In Ohio, the second US shooting broke out just after 1 am local time. The shooting took place near a bar in Dayton, Ohio and nine people were killed in the attack. The gunman is named as Connor Betts, 24 years old. The gunman’s sister is among one of the nine victims of the shooting. Police killed Betts just 30 seconds after the attack began. Security camera footage shows dozens of people racing through the doorway of the local Ned Peppers nightclub.
Scenes left by the second shooting
President Donald Trump has said “hate has no place” in the US and also admitted that “perhaps more has to be done” to stop such attacks.
