EL PASO — A 21-year-old gunman armed with a powerful rifle turned a crowded Walmart store in this majority-Hispanic border city into a scene of chaos and bloodshed on Saturday, stalking shoppers in the aisles in an attack that left at least 20 people dead and 26 others wounded, the authorities said.
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“Texas grieves for the people of El Paso today,” the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, told reporters.
He turned around and saw the gunman holding a long gun and wearing what looked like shoulder pads.
As Mr. Uruchurtu fled the store, he saw two bodies on the ground outside, one surrounded by a pool of blood.
Persons:
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Organizations:
PASO, Walmart, Workers, Dayton, Texas grieves
Locations:
Cielo, El Paso, Texas