Witness to Texas mass shooting deported after federal judge blocks Biden deportation pause Arelis R. Hernández, The Washington Post Feb. 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail An impromptu memorial was created outside the Walmart in El Paso where in August 2019 a gunman killed 22 people.Washington Post photo by Michael Robinson Chavez. SAN ANTONIO - An El Paso, Texas, woman who witnessed a mass shooting of Latinos at a Walmart in 2019, and provided critical information to state and federal investigators, was deported last week after the Texas attorney general successfully sued to temporarily block President Biden's 100-day pause on deportations. The 27-year-old was headed home Wednesday when El Paso police stopped her because of a broken brake light, officials said. Officers discovered that the woman had outstanding warrants for unpaid traffic violations and took her into custody. That arrest, along with a 2019 deportation order tied to a drunken-driving conviction, resulted in her removal to Mexico - a place she has not lived since she was 11 years old.