"This is disgusting, intolerable, it's not Texan, and we are going to aggressively prosecute it both as capital of murder but also as a hate crime-- which is exactly what it appears to be without having seen all the evidence yet, I don't want to get ahead of the evidence, but we have to be very, very clear that conduct like this, thoughts like this, actions like this, crimes like this, are not who are what Texas is and will not be accepted here," he said.
El Paso police chief Greg Allen said authorities had a manifesto from the suspect that indicates "there is a potential nexus to a hate crime." Officials declined to elaborate and said the investigation was continuing.
Many of those in the busy store were buying back-to-school supplies when they were caught up in the rampage, which came just six days after a teenage gunman killed three people at a food festival in Northern California.
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said three Mexicans were among the dead. Six Mexicans were wounded. It was the eighth-worst mass shooting in modern US history, after the 1984 shooting in San Ysidro that killed 21 people.
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