El Paso shooting: Border city goes from being target of rhetoric to target of terrorism. 'Ever since all the mass shootings have occurred and nothing has been done, I just said something would happen here.'
EL PASO, Texas — When an outsider came to El Paso and shattered the sense of security Joel Martinez had always felt in his hometown, he grabbed his family and huddled in a closet.by a gunman who walked in Saturday during back-to-school shopping time and opened fire.
A sign in support of El Paso a day after a mass shooting that left at least 20 people dead on Aug. 4, 2019.On Sunday, as law enforcement officials continued the grim task of identifying victims, residents of El Paso and Juarez, its sister city across the U.S.-Mexico border, tried to take stock of how they went from the center of President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration stance and anti-Latino rhetoric to being the target of a mass shooter.
They regularly navigate differences in citizenship and government through commonalities in language, culture and history but were left groping to understand how division within their own country brought horror to their city. “I had a feeling something like this was going to happen eventually," Nuñez said."Ever since all the mass shootings have occurred and nothing has been done, I just said something would happen here. I was just hoping it wouldn’t be a school."
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