{"id":7549,"date":"2019-08-04T10:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T05:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2019-08-04T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T05:41:00","slug":"texas-mass-shooting-at-least-20-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7549","title":{"rendered":"Texas Mass Shooting-At least 20 Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people were killed in a shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, in the U.S. state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>A man armed with a rifle opened fire at a Walmart store, on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 26 others as panicked shoppers and employees scurried for cover before the gunman surrendered to police at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Local media outlets also posted surveillance footage said to show a gunman entering the building with an automatic rifle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cctv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cctv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cctv.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cctv-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cctv-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old suspect surrendered to police as officers closed in on him, and he was taken into custody without incident, according to authorities. Police said the suspect was a resident of the Dallas-area city of Allen, about 650 miles (1,046km) east of El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Greg Abbott described it as &#8220;one of the most deadly days in the history of Texas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The carnage ranked as the eighth-deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, after a 1984 shooting in San Ysidro, California, that claimed 21 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people were killed in a shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, in the U.S. state of Texas. A man armed with a rifle opened fire at a Walmart store, on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 26 others as panicked shoppers and employees scurried for cover before the gunman surrendered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}