Two more victims of a shooting rampage at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, died of their wounds on Monday, police said, raising the death toll to 22 in the massacre as US President Donald Trump planned a visit to the stricken community.
Authorities have cited a lengthy anti-immigrant manifesto, apparently posted online by the suspect before the Saturday morning shooting in the heavily Hispanic border city, which they said was evidence the bloodshed was racially motivated.The four-page statement uploaded to 8chan, a largely unmoderated online message board often used by extremists, called the Walmart attack"a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.
Trump said Americans"must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy" and blamed the internet and violent video games for fostering violence.El Paso Mayor Dee Margo told reporters at an afternoon news conference that Trump would visit the city on Wednesday. The mayor asked that the visit amid a divisive gun control debate not be politicized.
The suspect's grandparents said in a statement read to reporters by a family member outside their home in the Dallas suburb of Allen, 1,046 km east of El Paso, that they were devastated by the attack. The Texas rampage was followed just 13 hours later by the mass shooting in Ohio and came a week after a man shot dead three people at a California garlic festival before killing himself.
In El Paso, residents brought crosses representing each of the victims to a growing memorial site near the store on Monday.
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