'We're afraid to go out to the street because we feel like we're being hunted.' Alvaro Mena describes fear in his community minutes after learning his 78-year-old stepfather died at the medical center where he was taken after the El Paso mass shooting.
The death toll from a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, increased to 22 after two more victims died in the hospital, police said.
"We are afraid to go out," Mena said."We are afraid to go out into the streets because we feel like we are being hunted because of skin color."Mena said his both his mother and father were shot outside the Walmart when they went to the store to exchange merchandise they had purchased there. He said he believes the gunman targeted his parents because they are Hispanic.Dr.
Shimp added that six other wounded victims remain at Del Sol Medical Center, one in critical condition and five in stable condition. He said two other patients were discharged and one was transferred to another local hospital. John Bash, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, said Sunday that federal authorities are investigating the incident as an act of"domestic terrorism," meaning the suspect was allegedly intent on"coercing and intimidating a civilian population."
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