El Paso Walmart shooting – 29 dead in two US mass shootings in 12 hours as gunman opens fire in Ohio after Texas bloodbath

Mexican authorities confirmed three of its citizens were killed - although they have not been named.

A further nine have been injured as three have identified as Mario de Alba Montes, 45, Olivia Mariscal Rodriguez, 44, and Erika de Alba Mariscal, 10, was injured in the leg.

Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Sunday Mexico will take legal actions to protect its citizens across the border.

A sobbing Edie Hallberg told reporters she has been desperately searching for her 86-year-old mum Angie Englisbee, who had been shopping inside the store when the shooting started.

She said: “I just want to find my mom. I want to know if she’s dead or alive, or is she still in Walmart. I need to find her.”

'IT'S CRAZY

It comes as his former schoolmate branded him a “weird nerdy boy” who “always stuck with his own race”.

Paige Ortiz went to school in Plano, Texas, with the mass shooter and said “people thought he was weird”.

She told The Sun Online: “People thought he was weird - people had caught him picking his nose and eating scabs and stuff like that.

“I just don’t know what he was thinking going into a Walmart and gunning down so many wives, fathers, children, mums and dads.

“I feel like he may have been bullied. Our school was diverse, however everyone usually fitted in somewhere.”

Neighbours from Crusius' last two addresses described him as looking "unkempt".

He lived in a five-bedroom house in Allen with his grandparents - who neighbours described as “very, very sweet people".

One neighbour told The Sun Online: "I know the family a little bit we would get together on the street for Labour day or things like that. They were an older couple.

“The couple are very, very sweet, it seemed like a loving family we would get together at street events - they must be shocked. This is a really nice area - it’s crazy.

“I would see him [the shooter] walking to his car, he was a little unkempt but he was an early 20s kid I thought that was maybe just his ‘thing’.

“There were zero reasons to think he would do something like this.”

Friends and teachers of his are shocked - it’s scary knowing that he was right here on our doorstep

Crusius' neighbours

Another neighbour described how his parents divorced and his mum - a school nurse - remarried and four more children moved into the house - so there was a total of seven kids at the property for a time.

She said: “When we moved here in 2007 and he was just a 9-year-old boy. And he would play and seemed normal.

“I remember he would always be by himself, always alone.

“The last few years he lived here he seemed he was always in the same clothes - he’d walk to school in khakis and a white t shirt every day.

“Even in winter he’d have a white t shirt on and it just seemed like he was always alone - I’d see him walking around on his own.

“He graduated high school here and then they moved out.

"Friends and teachers of his are shocked - it’s scary knowing that he was right here on our doorstep.

“His parents divorced and his mother remarried and four boys moved in so at one point there were seven kids at that house."

Crusius reportedly attended Collin College in McKinney, Texas from fall 2017 through spring 2019.

Dr. Neil Matkin, the district president of the school, issued a statement saying that Collin College was "saddened and horrified by the news."

He said: "Collin College is prepared to cooperate fully with state and federal authorities in their investigation of this senseless tragedy.

"We join the governor and all Texans in expressing our heartfelt concern for the victims of the shooting and their loved ones."

TWO ATTACKS IN 12-HOUR WINDOW

On LinkedIn, Crusius wrote he “wasn’t motivated” and said “working generally sucks” before adding that he is simply going to “go with the wind”.

He also revealed he spends “eight hours every day on the computer” which will help “count towards technology experience”.

Meanwhile, US rock band Blink-182 were “locked down” in an El Paso hotel following the mass shooting.

The group had been due to play a show at the UTEP Don Haskins Arena tonight but the gig has been postponed.

Vocalist Mark Hoppus wrote on Twitter: “We are locked down in our hotel in El Paso.”

The band later announced the gig was postponed in light of the events, writing on Twitter: “Following today's terrible tragedy in El Paso we are postponing our Sunday show in solidarity with the community.”

Parents of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver were in El Paso when the massacre happened.

Manuel and Patricia Oliver were in the town to paint a mural in solidarity of Mexican migrants.

He told NBC news: "We lost our amazing, beautiful son. We were going to do a mural to empower the migrants, but now we will come back to add more to the mural."

MIDWEST MASSACRE

The Ohio shooter is believed to have opened fire near Ned Peppers Bar in the city's Oregon district just after 1am.

The Mayor confirmed that 27 people had been injured, including 16 who were taken to hospital.

She later confirmed 15 of those had been released and one remains in critical condition.

Betts' sister Megan was a student studying environmental science at Wright State University, according to WSU spokesman Seth Bauguess.

Terrified witnesses shared footage showing bar-goers fleeing the scene.

One person wrote on Facebook: “Happened right in front of the patio where I was sitting in front of Neds.

“He tried to go into the bar but did not make it through the door. Someone took the gun from him and he got shot and is dead.

“There are at least eight people dead right by the picnic table where I was on the street.

"A bunch of people taken to the hospital. I don’t know how any... this place is a disaster.”