"We have at least 21 victims, 21 shots and at least five deaths at this stage", told reporters a spokesman for the police of the city of Odessa, without it being clear whether the figure of 21 " victims " referred only to the wounded or included those killed. According to the mayor of nearby Midland, interviewed on Fox News, three police officers are among the wounded.
The umpteenth shooting comes less than a month after a gunman shot dead 22 people in another Texas town, El Paso, about 500 kilometers west of Odessa. Hurricane Dorian, reinforced in category 4 , threat the Bahamas
Police in this town of about 100,000 inhabitants had initially reported"An individual (possibly two) driving in Odessa shooting random people". She had asked the locals not to take the road and be extremely careful.
Exchange of fire with the police
The shooting started at a police checkpoint. The shooter subsequently fired at random on motorists and "Taken hostage a truck from the post office". The suspect shot at vehicles on I-20, between Odessa and nearby Midland, riddling several cars with bullets. He was later killed in an exchange of fire with the police.
President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he was briefed on the shooting: "The FBI (the Federal Police) and the police are fully engaged"he assured.
The shooting in a supermarket in El Paso, a border town in Mexico, had killed 22 people on August 3, mainly Hispanics. Police arrested a 21-year-old white man who said he had targeted "Mexicans".
After this tragedy, Donald Trump was singled out for allegedly fueling hatred against Hispanic immigrants. And the El Paso shooting was followed a few hours later by another in Dayton, Ohio, where nine people were killed.
" My heart is broken "
The eternal debate over the control of the circulation of firearms had then resumed and will constitute again one of the stakes of the campaign for the presidential one of 2020.
"My heart is broken, I feel nauseated and angry. A few weeks after the horror in El Paso, another community in Texas was terrorized by gun violence. Enough. We must put an end to this epidemic "tweeted former Vice President Joe Biden, well placed in the race for the Democratic primary for the next presidential election.
I'm heartbroken, sickened, & angry. Weeks after the horror in El Paso, another community in Texas has been terroriz … https://t.co/GsjKmh0w0f
Following the El Paso shootings, Donald Trump was in favor of " common sense " on arms sales, while casting doubt on its intentions by giving full support to the powerful pro-arms NRA lobby.
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