Witnesses Recall El Paso Shooting: 'I Was Just So Worried About Those Kids, Man'
Glen Oakley was in a sport store in El Paso Saturday when a child ran in saying there was an active shooter in Walmart. Oakley didn't believe him and kept shopping.
But then he heard gunshots. Oakley pulled out his legally permitted gun and started to run for the parking lot when he noticed unaccompanied children all around him.
“It was just a whole bunch of kids up in there,” Oakley said in an interview with local NBC affiliate KTSM.
He tried to pick up the children, but they were so anxious that they writhed out of his grasp.
“I was just so worried about those kids, man,” he said.
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Oakley was in the middle of a mass shooting at a Walmart and the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso that law enforcement sources told NBC News left at least 19 people dead and 40 wounded. The suspect was identified to sources as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius from Dallas — a roughly nine-hour drive from where the shooting took place.
Police have confirmed a suspect has been apprehended. Another person was also detained, though the details around their alleged involvement in the shooting was not immediately clear, according to NBC News.
A video on KTSM.com purports to show people hiding under tables near the Walmart entrance as a gun fires.
One woman, whom Telemundo El Paso identified as Adriana, described the moment she realized someone was shooting.
“The first thing I did was grab my kids and throw them to the floor,” she said.
Another visibly shaken woman, who Telemundo El Paso did not name, said the shooter was wearing beige pants and a green shirt. She said she saw many people who were dead.
“Horrible, no — it was very ugly,” she said.
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