Democratic presidential candidates Beto O'Rourke and Julián Castro condemned a mass shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas, that left at least one dead and multiple people injured
Democratic presidential candidates Beto O'Rourke and Julián Castro condemned a mass shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas, on Saturday that left at least five people dead and 21 injured, according to Midland police.
The shooting comes four weeks after two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. The El Paso shooting is thought to have targeted Hispanics, leaving 22 people dead and dozens injured. Some 13 hours later in Dayton, nine people were killed and dozens were injured in a separate shooting in a popular nightlife district.
"Don’t know what the motivation is, do not yet know the firearms that were used or how they acquired them, but we do know this is fucked up," O'Rourke said in Fairfax Station, Virginia, during a rally for Dan Helmer, who is running for Virginia House 40th District. "We do know that this has to stop in this country. There is no reason that we have to accept this as our fortune, as our future, as our fate, yet functionally right now we have.
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