In El Paso, a town in Texas in USA, a lone wolf went on a shooting spree that led to 22 deaths.
The initial figure was 20 but later two more people succumbed to injuries.
"Seven Mexican citizens, 13 US citizens, one German citizen and one victim whose nationality could not yet be determined were among the dead in El Paso, authorities confirmed on Monday".
"The 22 victims ranged in age from 15 to 90 years old", reported the Guardian.
The shooter had posted anti-immigrant manifesto before the shooting and had a stone-cold look when he was arrested, reports New York Post, a newspaper known for often giving twist reports in case of white supremacists.
And also for linking it to mental disorder or making them appear as innocents by their focus on their 'good behaviour' elsewhere, that would sound them 'normal' and 'humane', unlike the image of a killer.
The second incident occurred in Dayton in Ohio. Nine persons were shot dead in an attack that came just 13 hours after the El Paso incident, the assailant has so far given no clue to his motivation.
The Dayton police chief, Richard Biehl, confirmed that the victims of gunman Connor Betts include his own sister, 22-year-old Megan Betts", the paper further mentioned.
Connor Betts fired 41 shots in less than 30 seconds, killing nine people. He used a .223 calibre high capacity rifle that had 100 round magazines. Over a dozen people were injured in the attack. He even shot dead his own sister.
Also, he kept a hit list and 'rape list'. In this case, probe is on to find what was the motive and whether he was a supremacist too, but Connor Betts is a White American.
The newspaper reports again used the terms, 'gunman' and 'shooter', not TERRORIST or the attack as Terror attack.
It has been a long-standing issue in US media that white men who are involved in majority of domestic acts of extremism are not called Terrorists and their acts not termed 'Terrorism'.
LINKS:
1. Terrorism in US: White man is always shooter or gunman, NEVER a terrorist
2. Insane gunman or Temple shooter but NEVER a terrorist: Media must de-link terror from religion
3. When 'White terrorist' kills 10 students in Oregon, US media calls him lone wolf or gunman
4. Florida airport firing: Once name was known, 'terrorist' became 'gunman', headlines diluted
5. Majoritarianism, racism: Why Dylann Roof not called terrorist despite killing people in US?
6. Alexandre Bissonnette attacked mosque, killed people, was fan of extremist right-wing leaders but he was not called terrorist
