Gunshots were heard at a mall in El Paso, South Texas, police in that city said on social media.
A shooting is currently underway in the Cielo Vista shopping center in El Paso, a city in southern Texas, said the authorities of this locality, who urged residents to “avoid the area.” According to this source, several shots were fired in the restaurant area of the mall.
During a press briefing shortly after 2:30 a.m. (French time), the authorities confirmed the death of one person. Police say at least three people are injured.
A suspect has been taken into custody, but the investigation is continuing to determine if the shooter was acting alone. Dozens of police cars were on the scene in the evening.
A shooting in the same city in 2019
This killing is a new drama in America this week: a shooting on a university campus left at least three dead and several injured on Monday near Detroit, in the north of the country.
Texas had already been marked last year, during a shooting in Uvalde, where a man had killed 19 children and two teachers in a school. Above all, El Paso is still marked by the massacre of August 3, 2019, also in a shopping center.
Twenty-three people are killed, and at least twenty-three others injured. Arrested after surrendering to the police, the shooter said he wanted to kill as many Mexicans as possible in this town on the border with Mexico.