'He was walking toward the door. At one point he stopped, and he turned to his right, and just started — he pointed his rifle down and just started shooting, assuming at people who were there. He shot a couple of times, maybe two or three times.'
In El Paso, the first sign that an ordinary Saturday would spiral into chaos confronted Vanessa Saenz in a parking lot.
"I had to be very careful. There were kids running with the parents, and it was chaos at that point," she said."He was walking toward the door. At one point he stopped, and he turned to his right, and just started — he pointed his rifle down and just started shooting, assuming at people who were there. He shot a couple of times, maybe two or three times.
By 10: 39 a.m., the first 911 calls were coming in. Six excruciating minutes later, the police responded to the scene.In the middle of shopping, Victoria Balderrama heard an announcement they were closing the store down, she said. A few minutes later, she heard there was an active shooter at the Walmart, and possibly an active shooter at the mall.
“We’re all pretty nervous and scared,” Mistey Garcia, 33, an employee at a Hooters restaurant in the adjacent Cielo Vista Mall told ABC News in a telephone interview. “We’re kind of hoping and sending our prayers down to everyone at Walmart.” "I think everyone was just unsure," Salgado said."Some people were crying, hugging. Some people were just — did not know what was going on. I spoke to one gentleman… he heard the gunshots....he said he tried to help some of the kids out of the mall ... he did his best to help people out."
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