A man armed with a rifle opened
fire at a Walmart store in El Paso,
Texas, on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 26 others as panicked shoppers and employees scurried for cover before the gunman surrendered to
police at the scene.
Many shoppers in the busy store were buying back-to-school supplies when they found themselves caught up in the latest mass
shooting to rock the
United States, just six days after a teenage gunman killed three people at a summer food festival in Northern California.
Saturday's suspect was officially identified as a 21-year-old white male from Allen, Texas, a Dallas suburb some 650 miles (1,046 km) east of El Paso, which lies along the Rio Grande, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Ciudad Juarez.