into the feeds of a lot of businesses or the street cams. if they have that same ability in texas, it should be something that ends relatively soon. because we need some eyes into the location that tell us where the shooter s he located. gillian: to be clear, we don t know the type of weapon that was used. that was a report that we got from one of the eyewitnesses from garrett tenney. so i just want to make that point, we don t know exactly what type of weapon was used. but you talk about security, you talk about getting some of this video, police getting their hands on this video. you re at a mall, this is a mall, this is a massive parking lot, every single person watching this program has been to one of these type shopping centers where you have a million businesses, all there at once. you also have i-10, you also have the airport not too far away. you talk about security cameras in the parking lot, security cameras at the stores, possible department of transportation cameras on the
active scene here. i m going to keep trying to talk to folks as they work their way out. rob: garrett, some of those details are horrific. let s update our views. this is el paso, texas on the east side of the city, near the airport in el paso, the siello vista mall. there s a walmart, a sam s club there and there s been an active shooting sometime around 11:00 in the morning local time. reports from local media say as many as 18 people have been shot. a witness told garrett tenney his mother was shot and killed in this active shooting, just a horrifying description there and police of course have surrounded this place. we ve been watching video, rights now, full screen, of people being evacuated, a teenagers probably hanging out at the mall on a saturday and just ain who has been with us on the line for the last few minutes. he s in our new york studios. i m sure you were listening to
shooting happened in the parking lot outside of a wall r mart and then the gunman again, according to witnesses, made his way inside the walmart. the video we ve seen that s come in, just more information, more videos starting to come in and our reporting from garrett tenney on the scene is that the sam s club which is also in that general shopping area, if you will, that area parking lot, that the sam s club was used as a triage. so you look at that video on the bottom of your screen right now, that s where they re triaging victims. we don t know any information about the shooter. we heard it was a man wearing a black t-shirt and cargo pants. that s from an eyewitness, not from police. we don t know the status of the shooter or shooters at this point. the last thing we heard from the el paso police department, 27 minutes ago, was that the scene is still active, that there were multiple reports of multiple shooters. so we don t have much to go off of. what are police doing right now th
triage and do the public services that have to happen and give them a relief on the investigative aspect of this. that s their initial touch. rob: just to update our viewers who are just joining us here. it s 23:02 on the east coast, 12:32 in el paso, texas, where we have reports of as many as 18 people shot at a mall, the mall contains a walmart and sam s club on nearby parts of the property. we believe the shooting began p outside of the walmart and quite possibly went inside. we have one witness who told us she saw a shooter wearing black and cargo pants and carrying a rifle and firing off multiple rounds right in front of a walmart and moving inside. we had another eyewitness tell garrett tenney that his mother was killed by t him outside of the mall right after this all happened when he got there to the scene.
the reports that garrett tenney was giving us live from that scene. just about the triage that was going on at the sam s club, he said. he said he was told from people who were there on the scene that the person who started shooting, started shooting in the parking lot and people couldn t escape because the only way out was to go in the direction of the shooter. right. that afierce be the case. appears to be the case. what the shooter established is this is a target-rich environment. when i heard the semiautomatic weapon, that sounds sound for what the carnage is as we look at 18 people shot. we have to take into consideration, we have two philosophies in law enforcement, you can either evacuate or shelter in place. when a shooter does something like this, he takes away from one of those options. and one of the things i m wondering is what is the shooter s ideaology?