One dead, three injured after shooting inside El Paso mall

One idiosyncratic was killed and 3 radical were injured aft gunfire erupted wrong an El Paso mall, authorities said Wednesday.

One suspected shooter is successful custody, and a 2nd imaginable fishy was astatine large, El Paso Police Sgt. Robert Gomez told reporters extracurricular Cielo Vista Mall.

The promenade is adjacent to the Walmart wherever a gunman killed 23 people and injured 22 successful 2019.

Authorities responded to reports of a shooting astatine 5:10 p.m., Gomez said. The reports came from the mall's nutrient court, the El Paso Police Department said connected Twitter.

Two of the wounded victims were successful captious condition, according to Ryan Mielke, a spokesperson for University Medical Center of El Paso.

Gomez did not place the suspected shooter successful custody, and helium could not supply a statement of the 2nd imaginable suspect. A motive successful the shooting remained unclear.

Authorities recovered a limb thought to person been utilized successful the shooting, Gomez said. He did not accidental what benignant of weapon it was.

The section exigency absorption bureau established a household reception halfway astatine the main gym of a section precocious school, section officials said.

Rep. Veronica Escobar, whose territory includes El Paso, recalled the 2019 shooting connected Twitter and said Wednesday's gunfire "brought backmost traumatic memories for galore of us. Please cognize you are not alone."

"No assemblage deserves aggregate incidents of weapon violence," she added.