the border. speak to the safety of this place. how this is. certainly. for el paso residents, we re very familiar with what goes on in juarez in terms of shootings, murders and in el paso, it s relatively rare to see you know kind of murder like this. but to see a shooting like this, i believe this community has not seen anything like this. but to speak to your point about the shooter not being from the community, you know you talk to any elected official here. any member of this community. they will tell you as soon as they heard of this shoot iing, they will tell you i m very sure the shooter is not from el paso. el pasoans treat each other with respect in a fably way and it kind of speaks to this dialogue and white supremacy, that certainly our community s having, that the rest of the country is having and how we call the motives of what the
the individuals who are still hospitaliz hospitalized hospitalized, we know there are 27 people who were injured, however 15 have been released, but people are still going in and out of surgery. some of their injuries vary. some are more severe than others. we were also told some of the injuries happened as individuals were just rushing and just trying to escape the shooter and what was really interesting, i don t know if you ve seen this video or this photo yet, but behind the bar where the shooting allegedly happened, there is this profound, this really powerful image of shoes in the parking lot and we re told that the people were running so quickly that literally, they lost their sh s shoes, just to kind of give you the sense of the panic, the chaos that ensued just after 1:00 this morning and once again, that suspect has been kill ed by authorities. it took less than a minute for that individual to be
sister. 22 years old and they also mentioned that all of the victims were shot outside behind me here on 5th street in the entertainment district just filled with bars and restaurants. this is a place where people go to have a good time. also, they wanted to point out that 27 people are still hospitalized and 15 people have been released, but once again, nine people among the killed and once again, they will be update ing us throughout the afternoon. a press conference at 3:00 but then at 4:00, police plan on updating us as far as a motive potentially as well as a timeline into this shooting. yeah and at the press conference that was held moments ago, we learned new detailed on the victims involved in the dayton incident. what are you learning there? that s right. so as i mentioned, there are
but that begs the question about whether her boyfriend was among the other people shot and whether that had anything to do with why the shooting happened in the first place. so that s something that they re pursuing there and that s complicating the job of trying to figure out why that happened. but at least initially, it seeps like we have two very different situations here based on what we know so far. one is a, an attack, the one in el paso planned for perhaps as long as a month based on a racist and antiimmigrant views. the other appears to be an attack that may have been motivated by a more personal dispute or more personal or family oriented feelings. at least that s the way it s looking now for dayton. but we still don t know. i mean perhaps the gunman didn t like who she was dating. if that person turned six of the nine victims were apparently african-american. if that turns out to be a
that requires that kind of response. my colleague, senator brown, has talked about legislation. we should also, of course, as we figure out what happened here learn lessons from it just as we learn lessons from others. and are there more things that can be done? i m sure there are. but i will say there s something deeper going on here. and if you look at the suicide rates, if you look at the addiction rates, this community s done a good job in responding to it but it s been at ground zero in terms of the opioid crisis as well. look at the mental health crisis in our country today, there aren t enough laws and, in fact, no law can correct some of the more fundamental cultural problems we face today as a country and the shooting last night is an indication of that. so i look forward to working together with my colleagues to try to respond the most effective way possible but we also have to look deep into our