Multiple people have been killed and dozens wounded person after a shooting rampage at a shopping centre in the Texas border town of El Paso.
Police responded Sunday morning (Australian time) to reports of an active shooter scene at the Cielo Vista Mall on the east side of the city and were advising people to stay away from the area.
Three suspects were in custody after the shooting, El Paso mayor Dee Margo told CNN.
It was reported that at least 22 people have been transported to hospital.
“This is a tragedy that I’m having a hard time getting my arms around, frankly,” an emotional Mr Margo said.
‘The White House said President Donald Trump had been briefed on the shooting and had spoken to Attorney General William Barr and Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Presidential candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke appeared a shaken as he appeared at a candidate forum in Las Vegas on Saturday shortly after news of the shooting in his hometown was reported.
Mr O’Rourke said he had called his wife before taking the stage and said the shooting shatters “any illusion that we have that progress is inevitable” on tackling gun violence.
The Democrat said he’d heard early reports that the shooter might have had a military-style weapon, saying we need to “keep that (expletive) on the battlefield and do not bring it into our communities.
“We have to find some reason for optimism and hope or else we consign ourselves to a future where nearly 40,000 people a year will lose their lives to gun violence and I cannot accept that,” O’Rourke said.
El Paso, which has about 680,000 residents, is in West Texas and sits across the border from Juarez, Mexico.
-with AAP
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