Patrick Crusius, 21, has been identified by police as the lone gunman who killed 19 people in El Paso, Texas earlier today:
The suspect in a deadly mass shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday was widely identified on the internet as a young white man whose social media activity showed support and sympathy for the president’s apparent white nationalist agenda. The name and photos of a man purported to be Patrick Crusius quickly circulated across Twitter in the hours after the shooting that first began outside a Walmart store at Cielo Vista Mall was first reported. If those reports were accurate, Crusius, allegedly a Texas native, just turned 21 last week.He fits the profile of far- right white nationalist gun nuts who are being enabled by the racist POS in the White (Supremacist) House.
The Shooter in El Paso according to a Sargent on the scene says the shooter is Patrick Crusius— Davis Schmiven (@WheresMyArk_23) August 3, 2019
If this is true, the Twitter account associated with Patrick is full of Trump and MAGA related postings.
Another right wing extremist motivated by xenophobia pic.twitter.com/2YIg8AnBh6
He apparently also left a manifesto outlining his racist beliefs about "race mixing" and the "Hispanic invasion of Texas," which he posted on the right- wing neo- Nazi image board 8chan.
Once Trump started using the bullhorn instead of the dog whistle, the creeps started coming out of the woodwork, shooting. These are the Trump terrorists that are the biggest domestic threat in America today.
UPDATE: 8/4 -- The death toll now stands at 20, with 26 wounded.
UPDATE II:
President Trump's racism does not just offend our sensibilities; it fundamentally changes the character of this country. And it leads to violence. pic.twitter.com/SbuxGneFnh— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 4, 2019
UPDATE III: Paul Campos traces the shooter's notion of an "invasion" by Hispanics back to the Republicans who've been using that term. They all have blood on their hands.