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MARQUARDT: Staying on top of the tragic mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, I want to get right to CNN Analyst Josh Campbell who has new reporting on the alleged gunman who took the lives of 20 people at a shopping center there in El Paso. Josh, what are you learning?</s>CAMPBELL: Alex, we're getting our first look here of the suspect. Authorities believed was responsible for yet the latest mass shooting here in the United States. This one taking the life of 20 people behind me injuring over two dozen. This is a 21-year-old resident of Allen, Texas who was taken into custody by law enforcement officers after this shooting. Now, as they dig into this person's past and as we've been looking at available reports and talking to some of our sources, there are a couple things that stand out. First of which being this is a resident of Allen, Texas which is some 650 miles from this border city of El Paso. So there are questions out there about why did this person choose to come to this location and to attack this specific facility behind me, that's part of that investigation. We're told that he was taken into custody alive, a key aspect of that next step for law enforcement will be trying to glean from him during the course of an interview. Anything that can help them get to the motivation was this someone who was proud of what he did, is this someone who is willingly going to tell law enforcement step-by-step what he did and why he did it, that is yet to be seen. But again we're getting that first look here, a 21-year-old white male resident of Texas responsible here police believe for just the latest act of carnage here in the United States involving mass violence with a gun.</s>MARQUARDT: Josh, if this manifesto is connected to him, it would seem very evident what was motivating him and that was hatred. But who else would the authorities be looking to talk to you tonight?</s>CAMPBELL: So right now they're orbiting this target right now. They want to talk to anyone who knew him, anyone that was associated with him, his family members. We can expect that as we speak right now, authorities are likely gathering search warrants to conduct searches at any residences or addresses that may have been associated with him, again, to gather evidence. Again, the FBI and local law enforcement, they have a procedure and process in place whenever there's a situation like this. The first thing they want to do is to cease any type of social media out there. They'll actually lock it down. Some of these accounts that are out there will all of a sudden disappear that's because law enforcement works with these companies to seize this evidence to get it down from public view as it becomes part of that investigation. We can expect that that's happening right now. Again, authorities want to get into not only his mindset, but try to determine was there anyone else who may have known, what was about to take place here, anyone who may have participated and just as important, are there any possible follow-on attacks. Again, if this was someone who is part of some group, that will be concerning to law enforcement. They really want to dig into this person complete 360 orbiting this target together as much as they can to get into that mindset and figure out what happened here in Texas.</s>MARQUARDT: And again if this document that's connected to him, the title said that he expected to die. He didn't, so we don't know really why that is, whether he had a change of heart. He wanted to be taken into custody alive. We really don't know. But he is in custody and he is alive and he is going to be questioned for a long time by these authorities. Josh, you were at the FBI, if you were sitting down across the table from this young man, what would you be asking him?</s>CAMPBELL: So the key question is the why and again getting back to looking at past incidents, we've studied these. Oftentimes, you will have someone who has no qualms with admitting why they did what they did. They're sometimes proud of it and especially if this manifesto is indeed connected to him. We're told by our sources that authorities are working to determine whether they are associated. Someone who pushes that information out publicly obviously doesn't hide what they're trying to achieve and the hate that they're trying to spew. So if he admits to that then obviously that will be key to investigators. We're also told, Alex, we've been reported that the FBI has opened a concurrent domestic terrorism investigation. They're working alongside state officials. The state has the lead right now, but the FBI is pouring through this manifesto, trying to get to any type of ideology that may have motivated this attack. They have their profilers back at Quantico that are professionals at this again digging into the mindset of these people. But, again, should it be determined that he was motivated by either hate or some type of radical ideology that falls in the spectrum of domestic terrorism, we might see a greater role here for the federal government but again as of right now they are working behind the scenes. The state has a lead. It remains a very much an ongoing investigation.</s>MARQUARDT: All right. Josh Campbell there on the scene. Let us know what else you learned. Thanks very much. All right. As you can imagine, when the news of this shooting in El Paso hit, the relatives rushed to the scene, searching for their loved ones and family members. Take a listen to this man who was looking for his mother.</s>WILL ENGLISBEE, SEARCHING FOR HIS MISSING MOTHER: My brother spoke with her at 10:31. She was in the line at Wal-Mart in the checkout line. They spoke for four minutes till 10:35 and that was the last we've heard of her and that was - that she was at that Wal-Mart right there and she told him, "I'm in line." My brother is on a flight back from Florida. He'll be here in a couple hours, but he was in Atlanta.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you checked all of the - sorry, apologize for making you repeat this, you checked all of the hospitals, you checked all of them.</s>ENGLISBEE: Yes. Yes, we just don't know where she is and the buses haven't shown up at MacArthur. I guess there were some witnesses they're supposed to take over to MacArthur, I have two sisters over there, and no one has shown up.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You seem to be holding up all right there.</s>ENGLISBEE: We're trying. We're trying. We just wanted to walk down here ourselves and take a look to try to find her. I mean, because she won't hold up without water. I mean someone needs to take care of her. She needs water, she needs to be taken care of. She's very ...</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And she's not answering her phone.</s>ENGLISBEE: No, sir. It's actually turned off. We use the iPhone app to try to find her.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And Will, are you worried that she may have been hit?</s>ENGLISBEE: Sir, I don't want to speculate. I'm hoping, I'm praying, I mean, please, God, bring her home.</s>MARQUARDT: Now, I want to bring in the Mayor of El Paso, Dee Margo. Mr. Mayor, first of all, our thoughts go out to you and to your community, to the families of those who are hurt and killed. Can you give us an update on the victims and the wounded?</s>MAYOR DEE MARGO (R-TX): I don't really know anything more on the statistics of the numbers. The 20 dead and those that are in the hospital. They're still going through the process. The governor and I just visited with the families waiting on information over at one of the schools here in El Paso. It's tough. It's really, really tough.</s>MARQUARDT: It's extremely tough and extremely heartbreaking. What about the investigation? What our federal authorities telling you? What is the governor telling you about the suspect? We understand he's a 21-year-old man who drove all the way from Allen, Texas. What more do we know about the investigation into him and to his motive?</s>MARGO: Well, there isn't much to update since we had the press conference. We talked about this gentleman, I shouldn't say gentleman, this murderer who came from outside of El Paso and as I've said before, no one in El Paso would have ever done something like this. This is not what we're about as a community. The investigations are still going through in identifying the bodies and they're going through their normal forensic work and then they're families will be notified. But nothing new was happening yet. We're here at the scene as it stands now.</s>MARQUARDT: Was the shooter, do you know, was he known at all to authorities?</s>MARGO: I don't know that. I do not know that. He came from out of, I think, Allen, Texas, is where they think they said he came from.</s>MARQUARDT: Yes.</s>MARGO: But my point is that just a real tragedy.</s>MARQUARDT: Can you describe the scene before the shooting? What would have been happening at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas on a Saturday morning in early August?</s>MARGO: A lot of shoppers. Everybody getting ready for back-to- school, normal routines, just a normal Saturday for people and yet this tragedy struck.</s>MARQUARDT: You and others have talked about how tight-knit this community is. What has been the reaction since this horrific massacre happened now just over nine hours ago?</s>MARGO: Well, it's been reported, we've had significant blood donors. This is a very generous community. It is a community that goes back 350 years and people just don't understand. We are a close-knit, we are large and close-knit, we're the largest community of our type on the U.S.-Mexico border. There's nothing in North America that can equate to what we have here with El Paso, Juarez. So this is just totally unexpected and as I say probably never would have occurred within El Paso.</s>MARQUARDT: You must be heartened to see those long lines of donors, of blood donors coming out to donate blood. There have been calls for people to sign up online. What can people do to help the community right now?</s>MARGO: Well, the Paso del Norte Health Foundation has set up a website for donations for victims and their families. And what we're telling other people is just continue to donate blood, that's what we need right now.</s>MARQUARDT: All right. Well Mayor Dee Margo, El Paso, Texas, our thoughts and prayers are with you in the coming hours and days which will obviously be extremely difficult. But we know that given how tight-knit and strong that community is that you will mourn together and then recover together and be stronger than ever. Mayor Dee Margo, thanks very much.