Gunman kills 20 at Texas Walmart store

(El Paso) – A gunman armed with an assault rifle killed 20 people when he opened fire on shoppers at a packed Walmart store in Texas, the latest mass shooting in the United States.

As President Donald Trump led the condemnation over “an act of cowardice” that police are treating as a possible hate crime, calls rang out to end the “epidemic” of gun violence.