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El Paso Reels After Walmart Shooting Leaves 20 Dead

A gunman opened fire at a crowded shopping complex in El Paso on Saturday. At least 26 people were injured.

I’m in lockdown on Cielo Vista Mall. Let’s go, let’s go! Oh my God. Let’s go, let’s go! Run, Mama! Run! Run, run, run, run. The state charge is capital murder. And so he is eligible for the death penalty. We will seek the death penalty. We are conducting a methodical investigation with our partners — a careful investigation. But with a view towards bringing federal hate crimes charges ... and federal firearms charges, which carry a penalty of death. We are seriously considering those charges. We are treating it as a domestic terrorism case. And we’re going to do what we do to terrorists in this country, which is deliver swift and certain justice. We have to be very, very clear that conduct like this, thoughts like this, actions like this, crimes like this are not who or what Texas is and will not be accepted here.

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A gunman opened fire at a crowded shopping complex in El Paso on Saturday. At least 26 people were injured.CreditCredit...Celia Talbot Tobin for The New York Times

EL PASO — Two nations physically and culturally come together in El Paso. The bustling Walmart on the city’s east side, just minutes from the border with Mexico, exemplified those ties.

The store was a border version of Middle America: A large number of Mexican-American families from El Paso crowded into the megastore daily for inexpensive groceries and, late in the summer, back-to-school supplies. Almost as often, families from Mexico drove across the international bridge to buy bargain TVs, cartons of diapers and discount clothing. It was one of the company’s top 10 in America: Where most stores of its kind average 14,000 customers a week, the El Paso Walmart, a retail analyst said, saw 65,000.

Its racks were stocked with Mexican soccer jerseys, cans of chiles and salsa and Mexican flags, folded beneath the American and Texas flags on display. The pharmacy’s staff members were fully bilingual.

“It really does feel like a United Nations store,” said Burt P. Flickinger III, a retail consultant who has visited and studied the store.

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Mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, took place less than 24 hours apart. We spoke to Times reporters in El Paso about the aftermath.
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Listen to ‘The Daily’: Two Days, Two Cities, Two Massacres

Hosted by Michael Barbaro; produced by Rachel Quester, Alexandra Leigh Young, Theo Balcomb and Annie Brown, with help from Jazmín Aguilera and Michael Simon Johnson; and edited by Lisa Tobin

Mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, took place less than 24 hours apart. We spoke to Times reporters in El Paso about the aftermath.

michael barbaro

From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.”

In two days, in two cities, two mass shootings have left at least 29 people dead. Two stories from one of those shootings.

It’s Monday, August 5.

Simon, tell me about this Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

simon romero

Well, this Walmart is not only one of the busiest of the more than 4,000 stores that Walmart operates in the United States, but it’s one of the 10 busiest stores anywhere in the country of any retailer.

michael barbaro

Simon Romero is a national correspondent for The Times. I reached him in El Paso.

simon romero

It’s located just minutes from the border with Mexico, so that means that it receives a great deal of foot traffic from people who are crossing the bridge from Ciudad Juárez into El Paso. It really caters to the predominantly Hispanic population in El Paso and, of course, the shoppers who are coming from the other side. There are Mexican soccer jerseys for sale, for instance. Almost the entire staff at the Walmart is bilingual. The pharmacy staff there are experts in pharmaceutical language in Spanish, in all the terminology that they need. So it’s really a well-known location in El Paso. And this was the store that the shooter walked into on Saturday morning.

robert gomez

My name is Sgt. Robert Gomez. I’m the public information officer with the El Paso Police Department. Like we said earlier, we are going to be giving you briefs throughout the day to give you information as it develops. The estimates of the shoppers at the Walmart were between 1,000 and 3,000, with 100 employees present. It is back to school, and the Walmart was at capacity when the shootings occurred.

simon romero

Families from both sides of the border, from both Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, were in there especially to buy school supplies for the upcoming school year, which is starting on both sides of the border.

robert gomez

As of right now, like I confirmed earlier, we do have one person in custody. I can confirm that it is a white male in his 20s. I don’t have any other information on that, but that’s the information we have right now.

simon romero

The shooter ended up killing at least 20 people inside the store and wounding dozens and dozens of others. The youngest victim that we know of is a 10-year-old girl who is a Mexican citizen who was wounded and who is now recovering in a hospital in El Paso, according to Mexican authorities.

robert gomez

That’s about all the information I have right now, but I will take any questions.

speaker

Where was the shooter apprehended?

robert gomez

I don’t have the location of where the shooter —

michael barbaro

Simon, what is the significance of the shooter choosing that Walmart in that location?

simon romero

Well, people throughout Texas have commented since this atrocity unfolded that the shooter could have chosen a Walmart close to home. He could have done this in the suburbs of Dallas or Fort Worth. He could have driven elsewhere to a place in South Texas to carry out this attack. But he didn’t do that. He chose to drive all the way across the state of Texas to El Paso, in the far west region of the state. And I think the choice is really telling, because this is a city that has been at the epicenter of the whole debate over immigration in the United States lately.

archived recording

The El Paso County medical examiner’s office released its report Friday in the death of 7-year-old Jakelin. Jakelin was one of two children to die in Border Patrol custody.

simon romero

It’s a place where migrant children have died while in federal custody.

archived recording

They found about 250 babies, children and teenagers without adequate food, water and sanitation.

simon romero

Just on the outskirts of El Paso, there is a Border Patrol facility that has come under intense scrutiny over the treatment of migrant children.

archived recording

So this is actually happening just outside of El Paso, in a town called Clint.

simon romero

So it’s no secret to anyone in Texas, really, or anywhere else in the United States that El Paso has a lot of scrutiny cast on it these days. And it’s very telling that he chose not only this Walmart, which is just minutes from the border with Mexico and which is regularly filled with shoppers from both sides of the border, but he chose a Walmart that’s in a city that is predominantly Latino and that, in some ways, exemplifies the fears that many conservatives have in Texas — and not just extremists but mainstream conservatives, as well — over demographic changes in the state and what that means politically in the years to come.

michael barbaro

And what exactly are their fears?

archived recording 1

People are flocking in from California and from New York, and they’re bringing their voting habits with them.

archived recording 2

The population of Hispanic Texans is growing nine times faster than the population of white Texans.

archived recording 3

Texas is on the verge of becoming the first state in the U.S. with a majority Hispanic population.

simon romero

It’s tied in to, really, this battle for political supremacy in Texas. This is a concern that is voiced among the highest echelons of political power in the state of Texas, whether it’s the governor or the lieutenant governor or members of Congress.

archived recording

Well, yeah, we have a demographic problem here in the state of Texas. As everyone knows, you know, in the last 15 years, the amount of economic and population growth that we’ve experienced has been unmatched across anywhere in the country.

simon romero

Republicans kind of see the writing on the wall, and they see shifting demographics meaning more Democratic voters in the future. It really symbolizes where Texas is heading, in some respects. You know, it’s not only a heavily Latino city, it’s also a Democratic bastion. This is the home of Beto O’Rourke, for instance. So they see these changes as portending a big political shift sometime down the road in Texas. And interestingly, that’s a sentiment that was also shared by the shooter in this attack. He expressed that type of thinking in the manifesto that he posted just moments before he carried out the shooting.

michael barbaro

So he specifically refers to these demographic changes, the growth of the Hispanic population in the state?

simon romero

He does. He also uses the term “invasion” to describe what’s been happening demographically in the state. And that’s a term that’s been used by other people in power, not just in Texas but on the national level, to disparage immigrants and migrant families time and again in our ongoing immigration debate. So he’s not someone who suddenly emerged from the extremes of this debate. In some ways, he’s really reflective of the mainstream debate in Texas and the ways in which people are talking about immigration in the state now.

michael barbaro

I found it kind of haunting how political this shooter seems to have understood that his attack would be, even before he carried it out, with everything you just said as the backdrop.

simon romero

He seems to have been very much aware of the political ramifications of carrying out something like this. In his manifesto, for instance, he points out that he has thought this way since before the election of President Trump back in 2016. But really, we have to remember that El Paso has consistently ranked among the safest cities in the United States now for decades. And a lot of people have pointed out to me in conversations over the past couple of days that this is a city that has been at the forefront of the debate over border security. And yet, in a way, it’s beyond ironic that the threat — in this case, the shooter — didn’t come from outside the country. He didn’t scale a wall. He came from, really, from the heart of Texas and drove all the way across Texas to carry out this attack.

michael barbaro

And he wasn’t an immigrant. He was a white American opposed to migrants coming across the border.

simon romero

That’s right. And that’s something that has really shaken people up in El Paso. This is someone who really could have been a neighbor to many people in this city or a neighbor to many people in the state of Texas. He is someone that’s not going to be detected by the Border Patrol or by ICE. And you know, no wall is going to stop an assailant like this, an attacker like this. So many people are asking what can be done to prevent this type of threat from materializing again. They are asking whether it’s safe to go into their favorite restaurant, whether it’s safe to go into their favorite stores and go shopping. And they’re wondering if they’re going to be targeted because of the language that they’re speaking or because of the color of their skin. And that’s something that has people very troubled right now.

michael barbaro

Simon, thank you very much.

simon romero

Thank you, Michael.

michael barbaro

We’ll be right back.

[phone rings]

jennifer medina

Hi. This is Jenny.

michael barbaro

Hey, Jenny. It’s Michael.

jennifer medina

Hey, Michael.

michael barbaro

Jenny, can you tell me about this thing that happened to you this weekend in El Paso?

jennifer medina

So Saturday, there was a presidential forum with more than a dozen — maybe even two dozen — of the presidential candidates in Las Vegas, Nevada.

michael barbaro

Jenny Medina is covering the 2020 presidential campaign.

jennifer medina

It was a gathering of hundreds of union members. And all the candidates were there to try to get the endorsement of this union. And it was around lunchtime.

archived recording

All right, folks. It’s almost lunchtime. A couple more candidates. Coming next, Beto O’Rourke.

jennifer medina

And then, Beto O’Rourke came to the stage to speak.

archived recording (beto o'rourke)

Hey.

archived recording

Hi.

archived recording (beto o'rourke)

Morning.

archived recording

Pleasure.

archived recording (beto o'rourke)

Thanks for having me out. Buenos días.

archived recording

Buenos días! Buenos días!

archived recording (beto o'rourke)

I, uh, I’ve got to share something with you that I just learned on my way out here to see you. In my hometown of El Paso, Texas, there is right now an active shooter, or shooters, at the Cielo Vista Mall. And we heard some initial reports of a very high number of people who have been injured right now. And so I just — you know, I’m thinking about El Paso. I want you to be thinking about El Paso, as well, and just that, you know, any illusion that we had that progress is inevitable or that the change that we need is going to come of its own accord shattered in moments like these.

jennifer medina

And this is his district in his hometown. This is, you know, where he’s spent all of his professional career. And it’s pretty hard to overstate how tied his identity is to El Paso.

archived recording (beto o'rourke)

And so I just wanted to tell you I’m grateful to be here with you. And to the people of El Paso, any of you who are here today or who are out there right now, we are thinking about you, and we want to make this better going forward. Thank you, all.

jennifer medina

So because I’m on the presidential campaign and covering him, I knew pretty instantly that I would be coming to El Paso. So I got on a flight to El Paso and then landed here. And there were, around the area where this happened, in the shopping center where this happened, there were, of course, TV trucks from every TV station you could probably think of or news outlet you could think of. And one reporter asked very directly —

archived recording

How far do you blame Donald Trump and his anti-immigrant rhetoric for the shooting here?

archived recording (beto o'rourke)

You see a president who has been warning about the threats of caravans and asylum seekers who he’s described as “animals” and “an infestation.” We cannot act as though this were just some kind of natural disaster or a matter of course for this country or the new normal for the United States. There is a very real cause to this. And President Trump is part of that, but he exists in a racist environment that is being fueled by Fox News, by those who on the internet traffic in these conspiracy theories.

jennifer medina

So after that, he was approached by a couple. And the father started to speak with him for quite a while. And mostly, he was just listening. The father was doing the talking. And I didn’t know who the father was. And after they were done speaking, I just asked, you know, could you tell me your name, sir?

manuel oliver

My name is Manuel Oliver. My wife, Patricia.

jennifer medina

And how old are you both?

patricia oliver

I’m 52, and he’s 51.

manuel oliver

I’m younger, yeah. I was talking about you.

jennifer medina

And I assumed that they were from El Paso.

jennifer medina

Are you from El Paso?

patricia oliver

No. We are from Parkland. We lost our Joaquin in the Parkland shooting. And we were —

jennifer medina

But it turns out they’re from Parkland. And their son, Joaquin, had been killed in that shooting.

patricia oliver

And you know what? We were waiting for Joaquin’s — today’s birthday, his 19th birthday today. And I have to deal with this again. And we’re trying, you know — and I’m — I’m telling you this because that’s why we came here, really. The purpose to be here for Joaquin’s birthday is we want to do something very remarkable, very important. And we want to do something with kids because Joaquin was very — I don’t know, he was very sweet with the kids. And we decided to come here and visit all the detention centers when this happened.

jennifer medina

And they had come to El Paso because today is his 19th birthday. As a part of their trip here, they wanted to go into Juárez to talk with the migrants there who are living in shelters and being helped there.

patricia oliver

And we were, yesterday, giving support to the families, migrants, that are in Juárez, Mexico, when we heard that something was going on. And we didn’t know what was going on. Because everybody was texting me, O.K., are you O.K.? Are you O.K.? Are you O.K.? Of what? There is a shooting in El Paso. Can you imagine that?

michael barbaro

So this couple came to El Paso to honor their son, who had been killed in Parkland, in part by visiting a detention center. And while they were there, there was another mass shooting, this one motivated, it seems, by anti-immigrant sentiment.

jennifer medina

That’s right.

michael barbaro

So just kind of an incredible, awful coincidence.

jennifer medina

Awful, awful coincidence.

patricia oliver

Well, I think maybe this happened for a reason. Joaquin brought us here for a reason. I believe I am very connected to him, and I believe that he just — he sees better there what’s going on here. So he brought us here because I think that he saw that this is about to happen, and we have to stop this. Joaquin is a very demanding kid. He was always, always — he keeps pushing us, pushing us, pushing us. We are not here by mistake. How can you explain that we were here? And when we heard that something —

jennifer medina

It was impossible for me to talk with her without crying.

michael barbaro

Yeah. It’s clear from this tape that the conversation you’re having with this couple is bringing up a lot of emotions for you.

jennifer medina

So I’ve been a national reporter for a long time now. And I, like all of my colleagues, have had to cover so many of these shootings.

michael barbaro

Mm-hmm.

jennifer medina

And it’s always hard. And sometimes it’s harder than others. And sometimes you somehow figure out a way to keep it together. And this interview, I couldn’t.

patricia oliver

— remarkable about him. We are his parents. And as his parents, we decide that we represent him physically here on Earth.

michael barbaro

I also have the sense, Jenny, knowing you, that you must have probably felt you’d covered your last mass shooting when you went to go cover a presidential campaign. And you’re covering a presidential campaign. And all of a sudden, as a result, you’re also now covering another mass shooting.

jennifer medina

The reporter part of me is way too much of a pessimist or a cynic to really have thought that I had covered my last one. I didn’t believe that. But I did think I wouldn’t have to during the campaign. And I certainly didn’t think that in one of my first trips out onto the campaign trail that I’d be flying to cover another mass shooting.

michael barbaro

Jenny, thank you very much.

jennifer medina

Thank you.

patricia oliver

If Joaquin brought us here, it was for a reason. And I’m just — to listen that I’m with you. So we need to be out there. This is our problem, not the politicians’ problem. It’s up to us how far we want to go with this.

[music]

michael barbaro

We’ll be right back.

archived recording (richard biehl)

So I’m here to provide an update for what you are well aware is an active shooter that occurred in the Oregon District in the early morning hours of today.

michael barbaro

Thirteen hours after the shooting in El Paso, early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio, a gunman opened fire in a popular district of bars and nightclubs, killing nine people and injuring 27 others, using a legally acquired high-powered assault rifle.

archived recording (richard biehl)

A little bit of a timeline. Today, at 1:05 a.m., officers were patrolling the Oregon District during bar closing time and heard gunfire. They observed a large crowd running away from this gunfire. The officers immediately advanced toward the gunfire and within —

michael barbaro

Among the victims was the gunman’s sister, who had come to the area with him. As of Sunday night, it was unclear whether the shooter had intended to kill her.

archived recording (richard biehl)

Threat was neutralized within approximately 30 seconds of the suspect firing his first shots.

michael barbaro

The Times reports that police patrolling the area responded almost immediately, stopping the shooter just before he entered a crowded bar.

archived recording (richard biehl)

Any suggestion, at this time, of motive would be irresponsible. We do not have sufficient information to answer the question that everyone wants to know — why?

michael barbaro

During a news conference on Sunday morning, Dayton’s mayor, Nan Whaley, said she was both grateful and saddened by the messages she’d received since the shooting from her fellow mayors.

archived recording (nan whaley)

Well, look, as a mayor, this is the day that we all dread happening. And certainly, what’s very sad is — I’ve gotten messages from cities across the country — is that so many of us have gone through it. Today is the 250th mass shooting in America. It’s sad that it’s in the city of Dayton.

michael barbaro

That’s it for “The Daily.” I’m Michael Barbaro. See you tomorrow.

[For the latest updates, read our live briefing on the Dayton and El Paso shootings.]

This is the border as it is lived everyday, far from the heated national debate over immigration. Children come and go across the international boundary for school; others come for jobs and shopping.

It was in this Walmart, on a sunny Saturday morning, where a white gunman angered by what he called the “Hispanic invasion of Texas” chose to carry out a horrific act of violence.

Disturbed gunmen have previously targeted American Jews, African-Americans, Muslim-Americans, gay Americans and American journalists. Authorities say the El Paso gunman, identified as Patrick W. Crusius, 21, targeted Mexican and Mexican-American shoppers and workers in the attack on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 27 others.

While there have been numerous Hispanic victims in several of the mass shootings that have shocked the nation in recent years — including the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando, Fla., in 2016 — the massacre in El Paso was the deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern American history.

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Peter Meza with rosaries before a vigil the Blessed Sacrament Parish in El Paso on Sunday.Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

The manifesto that a federal law enforcement official said Mr. Crusius wrote and posted online minutes before the shooting made his anti-immigrant beliefs clear. He wrote that immigration “can only be detrimental to the future of America,” and bemoaned a future in which Hispanics would take control of the local and state governments, “changing policy to better suit their needs.”

The apparent anti-Latino motive behind the attack stunned residents and officials, who saw the nation’s fraught debate over culture and immigration erupting with sudden violence in a city that had been both a focal point of immigration and a place — like many border towns — where the notion of immigration and national identity had rarely felt divisive.

“What was most shocking to me is not that it was a mass shooting but the motive, the fact that he specifically targeted Mexican-Americans and Hispanics,” said Gilda Baeza Ortega, 67, a librarian at Western New Mexico University, who was in El Paso visiting her parents. “He came here for us.”

Across the country, many Latinos were describing the targeted killings as a Sept. 11 moment, and the F.B.I.’s announcement on Sunday that it had opened a domestic terrorism investigation only reinforced that belief, especially in a city that is 80 percent Hispanic.

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“This Anglo man came here to kill Hispanics,” El Paso’s sheriff, Richard Wiles, said. “I’m outraged and you should be, too. This entire nation should be outraged. In this day and age, with all the serious issues we face, we are still confronted with people who will kill another for the sole reason of the color of their skin.”

Before the attack upended the sense of normalcy in El Paso, the Walmart and the shopping area surrounding it lured many people from across the border, as well as many El Paso residents looking for something to do on a weekend afternoon. People from both countries would go to new releases at a cinema not far from the Walmart, shop for discount clothing at a nearby Ross Dress for Less or stop in for happy hour at Hooters.

Texas has long been a state where Hispanics have shaped, and in many ways defined, what it means to be Texan. But in recent years, the old white Texas and the new Hispanic Texas have repeatedly clashed.

Some of this tension involves who gets to tell history. Activists and scholars have begun focusing on the legacy of racist campaigns of terror against Latinos in this part of the West, including the killings a century ago of Mexicans by lynch mobs made up of Anglos. Going back further in the debate over any “invasion of Texas,” historians note that it was actually carried out by Anglo slaveholders who migrated to the region in the 19th century when it was still part of Mexico, then seceded in 1836 and enshrined white supremacy in the first Texas constitution.

The more recent clashes have led not only to yearslong court battles but also to physical confrontations between white and Hispanic lawmakers on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives. White Republican officials in Texas have publicly expressed alarm about what they describe as an “invasion” of migrants spreading disease at the Texas border.

El Paso residents have now seen the most hateful parts of the debate bringing violence to their doors.

Adriana Ruiz was among those who left flowers, having picked up a bouquet from another Walmart in El Paso after church.

“I just —” she said, her voice trailing off. “Right now, my heart is broken.”

Ms. Ruiz, 50, said she was pained by the animosity that had surrounded the national debate about El Paso as it became a ground zero of sorts in recent months as migrants came rushing in from Central America. A hateful act seemed like such a stark contrast to the vibe and texture of the city where she was born and raised. She remembered going to Ciudad Juárez in Mexico on Saturdays with her mother, grandmother and aunts to go shopping.

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Notes were left at a memorial near the entrance to the Walmart, where 20 people were killed.Credit...Celia Talbot Tobin for The New York Times

“No matter who it is,” she said. “We make them feel at home.”

The shooting, she said, showed that a toxic environment outside El Paso was finding its way into the city. She heard it in the remarks about life in the city that did not reflect what she knew, especially those from President Trump.

“That is something that came from the top,” Ms. Ruiz said, referring to the frequent portrayal of the border as a place of crisis that was threatened with invaders from outside.

“It’s idiotic,” she said, conceding that her anger had left her stumped for the right words. “I want to say some harsher words, but it’s not right.”

Larry Scott, 40, said he had been in the Walmart early Saturday morning, several hours before the shooting. He had gotten two new tattoos on his left arm recently, including one of the Monopoly man holding a bag of money, and he needed ointment.

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Gilbert Medina and his kids, Gabby and Sebastian, brought flowers to leave at the pop-up memorial community members built at the back entrance of the Walmart where 20 people were killed Saturday.Credit...Celia Talbot Tobin for The New York Times

When he heard about the attack, Mr. Scott, who said he serves in the Army and is stationed at nearby Fort Bliss, felt an urge to do something, to somehow pitch in. He came back to the store on Sunday, but that offered little consolation.

El Paso was not his hometown. He was originally from Dallas, he said. Yet he had grown attached to the city.

“It’s not a big city,” he said. “But it’s our home. I’m hoping this makes El Paso stronger.”

The Walmart where the shooting occurred lies on the east side of El Paso along Interstate 10, near a number of hotels, chain restaurants and a mall. Aside from the wares that are aimed at Mexican shoppers, it resembles hundreds of other Walmarts across America. The store does not sell guns, but does sell ammunition, a Walmart spokesman, Randy Hargrove, said.

On Sunday, the store remained blocked off by police officers, who continued to collect evidence of the massacre inside. The parking lot was still packed, with the same cars that had been sitting there since the shooting the day before.

A steady line of cars drove by, some with cameras pressed to their windows. One man walked up, stood silently for a moment, made the sign of the cross and walked away.

A tiny memorial had sprouted along an aluminum guardrail behind the store. There were a few posters — “El Paso is a family” was written in marker on one — as well as a teddy bear, prayer candles and a print of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

At the memorial, Jessica Windham, 35, said she was there so her 2-year-old daughter could lay flowers, as her two sons looked on.

“I wanted to bring kids so that they understood that these are things we have to do because we are in a world that they are unsure of,” Ms. Windham said.

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Police guard the entrance on Sunday morning to the Walmart where 20 people were killed. The Walmart, just minutes from the border, exemplified the ties between Mexico and the United States.Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

Simon Romero reported from El Paso, Manny Fernandez from Houston, and Michael Corkery from Gloucester, Mass. Reporting was contributed by Rick Rojas, Arturo Rubio and Erin Coulehan from El Paso; David Montgomery from Austin, Tex., and Katie Benner from Montrose, Colo.

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: A Store That Connected Cultures, Until a Killer ‘Came Here for Us’. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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