Purpose. Democrats that are running to we also know police said that began about five hours ago when the suspect was taken into replace President Trump coming in the next election. A gunman opens fire inside a custody without incident. We have heard from walmart and then a shopping no Law Enforcement officials fired their weapons. Center, killing multiple people. So that is the very latest from el paso. He was scheduled to hold Campaign Events this evening. Im jon scott, this is the fox police in el paso, texas. We will continue to follow this those events have been scrubbed report. A busy saturday morning for you. And he talked about why he felt shattered by gunshots in the we now go to jon scott and the like he needed to get back home area of the cielo vista mall. To el paso. Heres what the former fox report. Jon heart break in the congressman had to say within the last few hours. A lone gunman going on a heartland as a gunman goes on a Shooting Rampage at a walmart deadly Shooting Spree at a im incredibly saddened and packed with thousands of Shopping Center in el paso it is very hard to think about shoppers doing their Back To School shopping. Texas. Im jon scott. This is the fox report. School was about to begin on chaos unfolding hours ago in the monday there. Police con firming multiple area of the cielo vista mall. People were killed in the a gunman targeting people this. But i will tell you el paso is attack. The Associated Pressep shopping on a saturday morning. Witnesses say he opened fire near the entrance of a walmart the strongest place in the before going inside the store to continue the carnage. World. This community is going to come Police Confirm multiple people were killed. Together. Im going back there right now one shooter is in custody. To be with my family and to be we have live fox team coverage. Mark meredith will have lawmaker with my hometown. We will be watching to see if the former congressman makes any reaction. Jackie heinrich is following the other comments tonight. We also have heard from latest developments coming out of area hospitals. Elizabeth warren one of the Christina Coleman has more on frontrunners going into 2020, the services being offered to she said the news out of el paso victims. But we begin with Garrett Tenneyis devastating. Shes heartbroken for the who is at the scene of the shooting in el paso right now. Victims and their families far too many communities have suffered through tragedies like garrett . Jon, we just got an update this we need to act now to end our countrys gun violence from El Paso Police a short time ago with some important details epidemic. Warren is one of several democrats we have seen tweets that helped paint the scene of what took place here around from, former Vice President 11 00 a. M. When the first biden as well as senator reports of shots being fired sanders. A number of candidates realizing came in. Police told us that walmart was this will be an issue not only dominating the news cycle today at capacity, meaning there were but for the next several weeks as many as 3,000 people inside. After this horrible tragedy in el paso texas. They noted that it is the back we will wait to see if we see to school time of year, so a lot anymore from the president on of folks were there with their kids picking up supplies, twitter tonight. Getting ready for them to go were not expecting to see him Back To School. We were also told the ages of till he departs tomorrow afternoon but that could change folks that were there from depending on what goes on. Witnesses went from little kids we will be following the from as young as a couple of developments from in new jersey. Months to as old as senior jon . Jon Mark Meredith traveling with the president , thank you. Citizens citizens. Lets talk to steve rogers a the shooting what we have heard from witnesses is that it took place initially in the parking former detective of the Police Department also a former member lot. One man, we know from officials, of the joint Terrorism Task a 21yearold white male who force. Steve, situation like this, kind pulled out a gun, started of unusual in that the gunman was taken alive and apparently Shooting People. Dropped his weapon. One city councilmember told us i mean, police didnt even have that it was an ak47. To fire a shot. What does that tell you . It tells me that the el paso witnesses said he was shooting Police Department, their indiscriminately at people. From there, he went inside training kicked in. What an excellent job they did. Walmart, and that shooting ive been in an active shooter continued for at least several training scenarios. Minutes. You know, just think about this, now, i want you to listen to the sound from these witnesses who you have guns pointed at the killer, at the shooter, you are described the chaos that took thinking we need to get this guy out but lets get him out alive. Place in those initial few your training tells you that minutes. We actually dont have that. I will describe it to you whats in his mind are a lot of myself. Answers to questions that law we spoke to one woman who ran enforcement will need answered inside the walmart right after as they move forward with the the shooting had started, and she said when she walked through investigation. I believe on the scene they the front doors, she saw a woman could have had a Hostage Negotiator with them but some of laying there on the ground who those officers evidently talked had been shot in leg and this guy down and he couldnt get up who was surrendered. Jon i mean the adrenaline had screaming, yelling, pleading, to be pumping, everything, you where is my son . Know, would be telling these she had come to the store with guys or, you know, perhaps her son, and when the shooting women, you know, be ready to broke out, she got separated pull the trigger, and they from him, and she couldnt get didnt. Well, again, when i go back up to go and find him and search to my years on Law Enforcement, for him herself. And were on active shooting another witness told us that she went to the back of the training scenarios, yes, your adrenaline is running. Walmart, that she and more than they didnt because their 100 other customers were taken into the storage area and put training kicked in. Into these large metal do everything you can to keep the shooter alive, if you have containers that you see on the to shoot them, thats one thing, pack of 18wheelers. They were put in there thinking but they did an excellent thing. It was the safest place they seeing buckets of water being could be in in case the shooter made it back that far. They waited there for about 20 thrown at Police Officers, for minutes. All the abuse police take, this when they came out, they said is an example of them behaving they heard another round of gunshots. The police just told us that no spectacularly and doing the best to protect us. Police officers fired their before i came into the studio weapons during this entire encounter, so we know from that, i talked to Police Officers that he was inside walmart for outside, i thanked them for their service. At least 20 minutes when those they said despite what you hear shots rang. And see, we will do our job and they say he gave up to police. He did not fire at motive. Protect the citizens from violence. Jon this guy is in custody right now, being questioned. Jon . Jon Garrett Tenney live in el if you were in the room, what paso. We will check in with you later, would you be asking him . Garrett, thank you. Was anyone with you . Did anyone drop you off . Holding a are there other accomplices . News conference about the victims. Thats important, because if lets go there live share infors there were one or two people connected to the shooting, then
this is a planned shooting. Much as we can given patient thats important. Question number two, a time line, where were you earlier . Who were you with . Who did you talk to . Privacy requirements. Those are very important good afternoon. Questions as we move forward. This is a sad day for el paso of course the Search Warrants are now being executed as we speak to his home, his computer, community. This country suffers another equipment, etc. Jon we heard from the attorney senseless tragedy. General and again this is the El Paso Community as you know was impacted this morning preliminary. The Attorney General seemed to by this active shooter event. Suggest that he had not had this verified, but he believed that the shooter was from the dallas area, who then apparently traveled to el paso for this [inaudible]. Awful thing. Does that have any particular significance to you . Well, one thing, and ive mentioned throughout the day, that its very important that no one speculates on these things. The commander on the ground who has all the information that should be the person giving all this information out. Jon we apologize for the spotty we have heard so many reports, Audio Connection there to the multiple casualties, no multiple News Conference at the el paso casualties, multiple shooters, no multiple shooters. Well try and restore that someone said it was an ak47 connection, and we will earlier. How do we know that . You know, i would caution people
certainly be recording so we can bring you the latest news from just to wait for the commander on the ground to give the there and the victims. With more on the breaking information and that is where developments after this mass you will get the accurate shooting in el paso, texas, intelligence. Jon the chances of it being an ak47 are actually pretty slim. Jackie heinrich joins us now. Thats an Eastern European jackie . Well, jon, police just weapon and not commonly found in confirmed over twitter there are the United States. No existing threats to any other very slim. The purpose of information is to calm the temperatures down, let locations within the city. That is welcome news as that people know weve got everything handled. Whole community is on edge. Calm down. Wait to hear from us again. A Massive Police presence there jon all right. This afternoon as Police Thanks very much steve rogers. We will be talking to you more scrambled to respond to that as the evening progresses. Situation and bring that one thank you. Thank you. Shooter that we know of right jon on the phone with us now, now to justice. They confirmed the person they have in custody is a 21yearold an eyewitness to the shooting white male. That took place in el paso. That is what we have from police at this time. Where were you, vanessa, at the we do not have a confirmed name. Time you first heard the shots . We also dont have a motive. We know that there were yes, sir, we were driving initially reports of multiple shooters. Into the parking lot and looking police acknowledged that they did receive reports of multiple for an empty parking lot space. Shooters, but they said at this time, they believe there was just one shooter, and they at that point, we heard several acknowledge that information large, loud bangs, pops. Could change. Right now, the focus is on treating the victims and finding i saw an older gentleman look
out if theres any other anything else police need to like he was dancing. Know about what the person who host he was just kind of did this was trying to do and hopping around. I thought that was kind of odd. Why this transpired. At that point i looked to the right of me, i saw a lady, she they tweeted, the police earlier was pushing her cart. Im assuming she was walking today, blood needed urgently, multiple injured, transported to towards her car after doing the various hospitals. Blood donation centers. Grocery shopping, and she just you have two addresses there on your screen. Were seeing reports that there are lines of people out the door at those locations, and people have been dropping off food and flew and fell back. At that point i thought okay water to help people in line this is not normal and my mom in trying to make donations. The backseat, she said just go we know that there are at least 24 victims. Go, and i couldnt because there 23 of them injured. Were people running through the one dead. Parking lot, so i had to be very thats information that we have from the two hospitals in that careful, but i was trying to get area, Del Sol Medical Center and out of there, and at that university Medical Center. Walmart, theres only one exit, Del Sol Medical Center confirmed to fox news they were treating so you can imagine theres 11 victims, nine of them in people trying to get out. Critical but stable condition. Two are stable. The ages of those victims they i come to a stop sign and i look are treating are 35 to 82 years to the right of me. I see the shooter was walking towards the door, wearing the old. And then at university Medical Center, an additional 13 khaki pants and the black victims, one of them they tshirts. He was carrying a rifle. Confirmed to fox news succumbed to their injuries and that person has died. The ages of those 13 victims covering his ears. And i saw him point at somebody range from 2 to senior citizens. On the floor in the corner, and so the victims range in age from he just shot s times, and what we know from the hospitals from ages 2 to 82. At that point he continued walking towards the door, and he unbelievably we know from Police Walked into the walmart. No Law Enforcement personnel jon how far away were you from fired their weapons during this incident. Him when you saw him shoot . They say the suspect was taken into custody without incident. And right now, they are trying a couple hundred feet maybe. To get a handle on the motive. Police also said that there were jon how would you describe the a lot of people who got separated during the chaos. Look on his face . There are multiple areas of honestly i couldnt see his Reunification Centers where people are going and trying to facial expressions. Relocate with their families. But one thing that i guess a statement from the governor of texas, greg abbott did seem to impacted me was the way he was acknowledge at one point that police were trying to figure out walking, very confidently, very if multiple people may have been
nonchalant, and it just looked involved, a statement that he like he was on a mission. Said. He released online, the state jon was he a big guy, a small of texas will do everything it can to ensure justice is guy . Could you tell . Delivered to the perpetrators of im sorry . This heinous act. That is the jon was he physically large . Was he big, muscular, or was he information that we have right a small guy . Now. No, no, a thin man, thin. 24 known victims. 23 of them injured. One dead. Jon you said we were in the ranging in age from 2 to 82 parking lot. I know you said your mother was years old. In the backseat. Jon . Who else was with you . Jon jackie heinrich, jackie, thank you. Joining us now on the phone, my 1yearold son. The Attorney General for the jon oh my goodness. That had to be terrifying. State of texas, ken paxton. General paxton, im amazed absolutely. Jon so hes in a car seat i frankly that there were no shots presume to your right . You were driving . Fired by the Law Enforcement. That shows amazing restraint on yes. The part of the officers who my mom is directly behind me, and hes next to her. Responded to this horrible event. Jon and what happened then yeah, it really does, and its, you know, obviously unusual to be able to take a after you saw this gunman actually Shooting People . Shooter alive. So many of these cases the shooter ends up killing we, my mom and i proceeded as themselves or being shot by Somebody Else who has a weapon im driving, we rolled down our or Law Enforcement. So it was pretty remarkable that windows and theres people Law Enforcement never had to fire their weapons. Walking from a bridge, walking
down keep in mind, theres a jon i know that, you know, bus stop really close by, so things are moving very quickly, and they are still in the people stopped there, and they process of gathering walk to walmart or to sams, information. We know the shooter is a 21yearold white male. Have you been told anything else and theres people walking towards the stores, and all we about him . Is he from el paso . The reports that ive heard, were telling them, turn around, go back, and there was a gentleman saying, telling and look, i think you will get everybody to duck, but there was more updates pretty soon from local Police Department, but i people still just walking, i dont know if they didnt hear believe that what ive heard from my people on the ground is anything or but after that, i proceeded to call 911 and just hes from the dallas area, and not from el paso. Get out of there as soon as i jon that would suggest that he didnt have a, you know, a beef can as soon as i could, im with anybody at the walmart sorry, and as safely as unless maybe he, you know, was possible. Jon people who were inside the employed there and left to go to walmart described it as chaos, another city. But it doesnt sound like this but they said it was oddly calm is a Workplace Revenge kind of thing. I do