was on the scene of a mass shooting in california, once the subject was engaged by law enforcement, the suspect turned the gun on himself and killed himself. we just don t know what was going through his mind, whether he realized the jig p gig wgig . in that moment, even if someone s coming in here with in a depraved intent to kill himself or go down fighting, it appears that was a change of heart on his part. a lot of that will come from that interview when authorities will try to glean from him what was going through his mind and try to recreate what happened. you believe he didn t kill himself and didn t fire on law enforcement because he wants to be heard, is that right? actually, it was mr. matthews that made that comment, which i found was interesting. if that s the case, certainly he ll be talking to those investigators that are interviewing him right now.
to authorities? i don t know that. i do not know that. he came out of allen, texas is i think where he came from. but my point is just a real tragedy. can you describe the scene before the shooting? what would have been happening a the a walmart in el paso, texas on a saturday morning in early august? a lot of shoppers, everybody getting ready for back to school. normal routines. just a normal saturday for people and yet this tragedy struck. ayou and others have talked about how tight knit this community is. what has been the reaction since this horrific massacre happened now just over nine hours ago? well, it s been reported we ve had significant blood donors. this is community that goes back
support. for this community and their efforts to rebuild. the governor of texas greg abbott there. we re also hearing from an eyewitness who saw the gunman and describes him like this. like those to protect your ears from. and he just started to shoot everyone. just started to shoot. and what i did, my first instant, was to get people out of there. i probably shouted they re shooting, they re shooting, get out. i believe i pushed people out of the exit maybe probably like 48 people out of there. and just told them to get out. and this senior citizen lady that i tried to help and i couldn t and i just told her to move faster and she couldn t move faster. so i left her there. and i needed to get out because
just in, we have learned that the federal bureau of investigation has opened a domestic terror investigation into the el paso shooting this morning that left 20 people dead and another 26 wounded. police so far have identified the alleged shooter as a 21-year-old white male from allen, texas, which is just north of dallas. he was arrested at the scene. the police chief also saying that the shooting has a nexus to a potential hate crime. citing a manifesto that they have obtained that may be connected to the alleged gunman. they say they re still working to confirm that it does belong to the shooter. i want to dive into this a little bit more with our chief media correspondent brian stelter. brian, we are getting a lot more information about this document. it s four pages long. it s entitled i m probably going to die today. he did not die. he was arrested peacefully without shots fired. what else was in this document that as we were saying we have not confirmed yet is actually connect
they say that she was in the check-out line and that the shooting erupted somehow sometime after that. the son and daughter have been unable throughout the course of the day to locate their mother. we do not know the condition of this woman, angie inglesby. we do not know if she s still inside the store or if she s been taken to a hospital and these children have not been able to reunite with her in any way. but that is the stress and the emotion that many people here in el paso are feeling tonight. you can hear a little bit from the woman s daughter, who spoke with us just a little while ago. macarthur school. we went to school there. then my niece took me to pebble hills. she wasn t there. the bus was empty. all the people were gone. and we said, well i asked the cops at macarthur, i want to know where my mom is. where are the people that are at walmart? where did you put them all?