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TexasTowelie

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Thu Nov 14, 2019, 09:01 PM Nov 2019

As Walmart reopens, El Pasoans are still grappling with mass shooting's aftermath

by Julián Aguilar, Texas Tribune


EL PASO — The poster boards with messages of support for this border community have been removed from the parking lot gate near this Walmart store — the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in Texas history. Gone, too, are the candles, photographs and rosary beads that for months memorialized the 22 victims of the Aug. 3 attack.

The store reopened its doors Thursday, creating a wave of mixed emotions in a community still grieving from the racially motivated attack by a gunman who allegedly said in an online manifesto that he targeted people who looked “Mexican” in his attempt to ward off what he called an invasion of the country.

For people like Edgar Ceniceros, who went to high school a few blocks away and used to eat lunch at the Walmart McDonald’s, the store’s reopening was inevitable. He hopes returning to the normal hustle-and-bustle at one of the city’s busiest retail centers will mark a return to normalcy. But he knows that it won’t be easy at first.

“This is a place where a lot of people died. It’s going to be hard,” he said from the parking lot of the nearby Sam’s store. “Maybe I am going to cry, but we need to keep going, we need to be strong.”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/14/walmart-prepares-reopen-el-pasoans-grapple-shooting-aftermath/
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As Walmart reopens, El Pasoans are still grappling with mass shooting's aftermath (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2019 OP
I'm surprised that they reopened that store, Walmart should have razed that store and built Meadowoak Nov 2019 #1

Meadowoak

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1. I'm surprised that they reopened that store, Walmart should have razed that store and built
Thu Nov 14, 2019, 11:32 PM
Nov 2019

A new one down the street. I would never step foot in there, knowing what happened!

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