Some fighting for their lives right now. One of the targets, families doing saturday shopping in el paso. The other, crowds at a weekend night spot in dayton, ohio. Around 1 00, we got the first reports of the devastating mass shooting in the downtown area of the oregon district of dayton, ohio. Thats 1 00 a. M. Today. Not to be confused with yesterdays shooting. A gunman opening fire, killing at least nine people, injuring 16 others. Police say the suspect was using a long gun. Witnesses calling in to us moments ago and describing the shots ringing in one after the other. Were told that the gunman was killed by police who were in the area. No officers were injured and officials are now trying to identify who exactly that suspect was. Now, Dayton Police gave us this update. Just a couple hours ago. We had multiple officers in the immediate vicinity when this incident started. Theres a very short timeline of violence. For that, were very fortunate. This was all an exterior event. It all
His new plan. Pushback over the president s plan to come to el paso and might those visits cause more pain than comfort. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the national lead. President trump now planning to visit the communities where two men committed horrific acts of gun violence and carnage killing at least 31 innocent people. The president will go to both el paso, texas, and dayton, ohio, tomorrow. In el paso right now the alleged domestic terrorism is talking to Police Telling them he got lost when he first arrived in the city after having driven for 11 hours from the dallas area to begin his racist murderous rampage and in dayton where the shooter was killed on sunday morning, a picture of the murderer who killed his own sister and others as details come from his social media accounts and those who knew him. The twitter account belonging to him suggest he had a long time interest in violence and described himself as a metal head and a leftist. Now to dayton where
Just boom, boom, boom, boom. Rapid. And you could tell a big gun. Not going to get those from no handguns. We seen them all running like looking down how the stairs are, looking down, you can see everything thats down there and just see people running every way that they could. The pain and grief all too familiar. The profiles of the suspects. Also familiar and so are the calls for action, but when will the outcome finally be any different . Their amazing courage and their response undoubtedly saved many, many, many lives. This is a eweuniquely americ problem. No other nation sees this carnage. You think President Trump is a White Nationalist . Yes. I do. I know hes racist. Theres no question in my mind. I think thats pretty well define d at this point. This is where we are as a nation. Unbelievable right now. Two Mass Shootings occur iring the span of 13 hours. The first in el paso, texas, where police say a 21yearold shot and killed 20 people and injured at least 26 others in a crowd
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