One person was killed and three more were wounded in a shooting at a busy US shopping mall on Wednesday. Police said hours after the gunfire that two people had been taken into custody, though details of what led the shooting remained unclear. The shooting happened in a busy shopping area and across a large parking lot from a Walmart in the center of El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed in a racist attack targeting Hispanic people in 2019.
El Paso police said hours after the gunfire that two people had been taken into custody, though details of what led the shooting remained unclear.
Interim police chief Peter Pacillas said that Cielo Vista Mall was still considered a crime scene, and that it would remain locked down until authorities had completed their investigation.
Pacillas stressed that the danger had passed.
El Paso — with a largely Latino population of about 700,000 people — sits on the U.S. border with Mexico, where residents of both countries cross frequently.
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