EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Police in El Paso, Texas, say they’ve received reports of multiple shooters at a shopping complex and are urging the public to stay away from the area.
The police department tweeted Saturday that officers are at the Cielo Vista Mall area and that it is still an active shooter scene. Authorities haven’t given any information about possible shooting victims.
UPDATE 2:01 P.M.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Mayor’s aide and police say multiple people were killed in an attack at an El Paso, Texas, shopping complex.
UPDATE 2:12 P.M.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Olivia Zepeda, the chief of staff to El Paso Mayor Dee Margo, told CNN on Saturday that multiple people had been killed in the attack in or near the Cielo Vista Mall and that suspects have been taken into custody. She didn’t say how many victims there were.
UPDATE 2:35 P.M.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Police Sgt. Enrique Carrillo told reporters Saturday that the attack at or near the Cielo Vista Mall had ended. He didn’t say how many people were wounded or killed, but NBC News reports that a University Medical Center of El Paso official said it had received at least 10 seriously injured victims and that some victims were taken to other hospitals.
UPDATE 3:08 P.M.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Authorities believe a deadly attack at or near a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, was carried out by a single gunman who is in custody.
Police spokesman Robert Gomez says investigators are still trying to determine what happened during Saturday’s attack. He says multiple people were shot, but he didn’t say how many.
UPDATE 3:42 P.M.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – A University Medical Center of El Paso official says one of 12 people who were rushed to the hospital after the attack on a shopping complex has died. Ryan Mielke, a hospital spokesman, says all of the victims suffered traumatic injuries in Saturday’s attack at or near the Cielo Vista Mall.
He says two children, ages 2 and 9, were stabilized at the medical center before being transferred to the neighboring El Paso Children’s Hospital.
UPDATE 3:58 P.M.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – A Walmart official says the company is trying to determine if there was gunfire inside one of its stores during a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
Walmart spokesman Randy Hargrove says the company is “in shock” over the news of Saturday’s attack. Authorities say a gunman killed and wounded multiple people at or near the Cielo Vista Mall, though they haven’t said how many.
UPDATE 4:20 P.M.
Fox News reports that Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says there were between 15 and 20 “casualties” of the shooting.
UPDATE 4:35 P.M.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Hospitals say they are treating 22 victims of the mass shooting at an El Paso shopping complex, not including a patient who died after arriving at one of the hospitals.
The Del Sol Medical Center is treating 11 patients, the University Medical Center of El Paso is treating nine, the El Paso Children’s Hospital is treating two.
UPDATE 5:05 P.M.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Sgt. Robert Gomez said at a news conference that anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 shoppers and about 100 employees were at the Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall when Saturday’s attack happened.
Gomez says most of the victims appear to have been at the Walmart, though he also says police had “secured” the mall. He says a man in his 20s was taken into custody and that law enforcement didn’t fire a single shot. He did not name the suspected gunman or say how many people were killed or wounded.
