A minimum of one person was killed after a gunman opened fire in a Texas mall food court Wednesday, cops said.
Police said the shooting began around 5 p.m. on the Cielo Vista Mall in East El Paso. Officers said that 4 people have been shot, one fatally.
Two of the victims were rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
Police said one person was taken into custody, but that cops are still searching for one more person who could have been involved within the deadly shooting.
Former White House official Olivia Troye said her aunt — a survivor of the 2019 Walmart massacre — was inside Cielo Vista mall when the shooting began.
“What’s it going to take to enact change?!” Troye tweeted.
Officers didn’t provide a possible motive but said the shots immediately sparked a frenzy inside the large mall.
“It was chaotic. People did flee. They were scared,” Sgt. Robert Gomez, who was inside when gunfire erupted, told CNN.
There was a heavy police presence outside the mall as detectives investigated the shooting.
“Thanks to all law enforcement and first responders who quickly went into motion to guard their fellow Texans,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted.
The Cielo Vista Mall is positioned in the identical shopping mall because the El Paso Walmart where Patrick Crusius gunned down 23 people in a racially motivated 2019 attack.
Crusius pleaded guilty to the ghastly crime last week.
