cowardly to see low hua-hanging fruit, saying in his mind it s okay to go after easy victims like at a shopping mall. and he talks at length about why he wrote the nan festo, said he d only been plan field goal for about a month and even though it wasn t a perfect plan and the manifesto was rife with grammatical and spelling errors, he said nothing is going to change and the future he envisioned will never happen. sew talks about the fact he expects to be killed by police and yet we know that he surrendered without incident. so something happened. maybe a sense of satisfaction after the mayhem. ma made him go ahead and give himself up. you mentioned there he said he couldn t wait any long er. the manifesto was posted online less than 20 minutes before the shooting. he also posted about five
for the country that i know has been paying a lot of attention to this, asking what they can do, i ask that you keep el pasoans in your prayer. we know the power of prayer and the power can you have by using that prayer. for every mom and dad and son and daughter, we ask you put your arms around your family members tonight and give them a hug and let them know how much you love them. words of comfort there from texas governor greg abbott. ed lavandera has arrived in el paso and is on the scene. you heard the governor taking this very personally, very somber, calling this one of the deadliest days in the history of texas. you are there at the scene of this mass shooting. the first calls about this shooting started coming in just over neen houine hours ago we
some very strong words there from beto o rourke, the former texas congressman, also saying this is not who we are, this is something that we have never paso, texas. saying that there are around five murders a year in el paso, today at least 20 people have been killed. i want to turn to cnn s ed lavandera who is in el paso at the scene of this deadly shooting. ed, we have learned a lot more in the last few hours about this 21-year-old suspect who was accused of carrying out this massacre. tell us what we do know. we do know that here texas authorities are already talking about how this suspect could very well face the death penalty here, that law enforcement officials and the governor of texas saying that this person will be prosecuted to the fullest extent in a crime of this magnitude carries the death penalty here in the state of texas. we also know that fbi investigators are working alongside those local
authorities investigating the hate crime avenue in all of this as well. so those are the pieces of the puzzle that are moving right now. and here at the scene we re in a parking lot just behind the walmart where the shooting unfolded earlier today. this is a walmart in a parking lot in a shopping center that is still completely locked down. investigators are still inside. we have seen dozens of cars still left in the parking lot from people who were here shopping when this shooting occurred. unable to come back into this parking lot. it s all locked down as investigators do their work. and we re also hearing some harrowing stories here, alex, tonight from a number of people. one family in particular, the family of angie inglesby, who s an 86-year-old woman. we ve spoke nguyen her son and her daughter, and they tell us that the elderly woman was inside the walmart and she had spoken to a relative over the phone just minutes before the shooting took place.
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