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31 Dead, 2 US Shootings, 1 Tie to Hate
President
condemns hate,
but not guns, in
response
Two shooting sprees that
amassed 31 deaths, dozens injured
by Monday’s count and occurred
less than 24 hours apart over the
weekend—one in El Paso, Texas,
that authorities said appears to be
a racially motivated hate crime
on Saturday—and one in Dayton,
Ohio on Sunday.
Officers gunned down the Ohio
shooter at the doorstep of a bar-
turned-hiding place in the middle
of Dayton’s nightclub district and
arrested the El Paso shooter as
hundreds fled a crowded Walmart
shopping center. Though the two
attacks staggered a nation accus-
tomed to gun violence, the big-
ger shock may have been that the
death toll wasn’t worse.
In the Texas border city of El
Paso, a gunman opened fire Sat-
urday morning in a shopping area
packed with thousands of people
during the busy back-to-school
season. The attack killed 22 and
wounded more than two dozen,
many of them critically. One of
those killed died early Monday at
a hospital.
Hours later in Dayton, Ohio, a
gunman wearing body armor and
carrying extra magazines opened
fire in a popular nightlife area,
killing nine and wounding more
than two dozen people.
The El Paso shooting was being
21-year-old Patrick Crusius (left)and 24-year-old Connor Betts
were the alleged perpetrators of two separate mass shootings that
occurred over the weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio,
respectively.
investigated by law enforcement
as a possible hate crime.
In response to the violence,
President Donald Trump on
Monday condemned the week-
end shootings as barbaric crimes
“against all humanity.”
“In one voice, our nation must
condemn racism, bigotry and
white supremacy,” Trump said,
adding that he had directed the
FBI to examine steps to identify
and address domestic terrorism.
Authorities worked to confirm
whether a racist screed posted on-
line shortly beforehand was writ-
ten by the man arrested, a post
that mirrored some of Trump’s an-
ti-immigrant rhetoric. The border
city is home to 680,000 people,
many of them Latino.
Some, like Ernesto Carrillo,
whose brother-in-law Ivan Morena
was killed in the Walmart attack,
said the president shares blame for
inflammatory language Carrillo
called a “campaign of terror.”
El Paso authorities offered few
details about the assault, but Po-
lice Chief Greg Allen described
the scene as “horrific” and said
many of the 26 people who were
hurt had life-threatening injuries.
In Dayton, the bloodshed was
likely limited by the swift police
response. Officers patrolling the
area took just 30 seconds to stop
the shooting, which unfolded
around 1 a.m. on the streets of the
downtown Oregon District, May-
or Nan Whaley said.
Video released by police shows
24-year-old Connor Betts being
shot down by officers, just steps
away from entering a bar filled
with hiding patrons.
Had police not responded so
quickly, “hundreds of people in
the Oregon District could be dead
today,” Whaley said.
Betts’ 22-year-old sister, Me-
gan Betts, was among those killed
in Dayton.
Authorities identified the El
Paso suspect as 21-year-old Pat-
rick Crusius from Allen, a Dallas
suburb which is a nearly 10-hour
drive from El Paso.
El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said
he knew the shooter was not from
his city.
“It’s not what we’re about,” the
mayor said at a news conference
with Gov. Greg Abbott and the po-
lice chief.
President Donald Trump tweet-
ed Monday that Washington “must
come together” in the wake of
the shootings “to get strong back-
ground checks” for gun users. But
he provided no details on what sort
of legislation he would support.
The Democrat-led House has
passed a gun control bill that in-
cludes fixes to the nation’s firearm
background check system, but it
has languished in the GOP-con-
trolled Senate.
Trump suggested Monday that
a background check bill could be
paired with his long-sought effort
to toughen the nation’s immigra-
tion system, though he didn’t say
how. He also signaled he would
oppose large-scale gun control
efforts pushed by Democrats, say-
ing, “hatred pulls the trigger, not
the gun.”
Trump has reneged on previous
pledges to strengthen gun laws.
Democratic presidential candi-
date and former Texas congress-
man Beto O’Rourke, who is from
El Paso and was at a candidate
forum Saturday in Las Vegas, ap-
peared shaken after receiving news
of the shooting in his hometown.
He said he heard early reports
that the shooter might have had a
military-style weapon, saying we
need to “keep that (expletive) on
the battlefield. Do not bring it into
our communities.”
The shootings were the 21st
and 22nd mass killings of 2019 in
the U.S., according to the AP/USA
Today/Northeastern
University
mass murder database that tracks
homicides where four or more
people killed — not including
the offender and came less than a
week after a 19-year-old gunman
killed three people and injured 13
others at the popular Gilroy Garlic
Festival in California before dying
of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The shootings come after a link
to right-wing extremism was found
for every extremist killing in the
US in 2018, according to a January
2019 report from the Anti-Defama-
tion League’s Center on Extrem-
ism, Business Insider reported.
--Associated Press contributed
to this article.