A manifesto posted on 8chan is believed to have been written by the suspect in a shooting that killed 22 in El Paso

El Paso residents place flowers at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Saturday mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

An anonymous online forum called 8chan has drawn attention in the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio because violent U.S. extremists have used it to share tips and encourage one another. The site suffered sporadic outages Monday after its cybersecurity provider cut off support for what it called a “cesspool of hate.”

The online message board dates back to 2013. Under the banner of free speech, it allows users to post graphic and extremist content and doesn’t censor posts.

The site has been linked to violent extremists. Police are investigating commentary posted on 8chan believed to have been written by the suspect in a shooting Saturday that killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas.

If there is a connection, it would be the third known instance of a shooter posting to the site before going on a rampage. In March, the gunman in mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques posted a rambling manifesto to the site, as did another who injured several people and killed one at a California synagogue in April.

8chan’s founder, Fredrick Brennan, is no longer running the site. In an interview with The New York Times on Monday, he said the site wasn’t doing any good and called for it to be shut down.

READ MORE: El Paso suspect appears to have posted anti-immigrant screed

WHY DID 8CHAN GO DOWN?

The site went down briefly after security provider Cloudflare said it would stop supporting the site. Without Cloudflare, the site was vulnerable to outside hackers who shut down the site.

“8chan has repeatedly proven itself to be a cesspool of hate,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wrote. “They have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths.”

CAN 8CHAN BE SHUT DOWN?

8chan’s popularity rose after the similarly named but unaffiliated site 4chan cracked down on more extreme posts. Because the U.S. doesn’t specifically outlaw domestic terrorism the way it does foreign-sponsored extremism, such sites enjoy broad protection from government oversight under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

Even if that weren’t the case, content on sites like 8chan are also difficult to stamp out because users can simply move on if moderators grow stricter or if a site shuts down.

“Dealing with incitement to violence and hatred online goes well beyond any one platform,” the Anti-Defamation League’s Oren Segal said.

“These hate and racist posts will find another way to get their message out and another site with less scruples will pop up to host them,” added Tim Bajarin, a technology columnist and president of Creative Strategies. “The internet has always been a Wild, Wild West medium with very little controls to keep this type of harmful commentary from seeing the light of day.”

READ MORE: Life in public-shooting-era America: ‘You can’t just not go’

Mutale Nkonde, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, said it’s time to think about creating a legal definition for harmful speech that could be regulated.

“We need to seriously balance do we want to be secure as a nation and have the ability to go to Walmart or we want to protect the speech of those who want to destroy our country from within?” she said.

But there has been resistance to passing legislation, said David Kaye, the U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of expression and a University of California-Irvine law professor.

“It’s very difficult to get any kind of law adopted in the United States,” Kaye said. “Even after these terrible crimes and the connection the 8chan forum has to them, I don’t see much of a likelihood of a pretty serious debate about how the companies should be regulated.”

Kaye said that in the absence of U.S. government action on online speech, the most Americans can hope for is that companies like Cloudflare are transparent about their policies regarding hate speech — and what should be regarded as incitement to violence and not tolerated.

“There is probably horrible content that’s being hosted by its clients in other parts of the world,” he said, “but is it applying the same measures there?”

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The far-right web forum 8chan, used to celebrate mass shootings and spread suspects' so-called “manifestos”, has been forced offline after losing its cyber-security protection.

Cloudflare, a San Francisco-based firm that provides added security for websites to prevent cyber-attacks, said it would stop protecting 8chan at midnight Pacific Time (08:00 BST) on Monday.

The 21-year-old suspect in this weekend’s shooting in El Paso, Texas, is understood to have used 8chan to spread his manifesto.

Previously, the site was also used by the suspect in March’s shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as the suspect in April's synagogue shooting in Poway, California.

Losing Cloudflare’s protection has made 8chan vulnerable to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, whereby a website is bombarded with traffic that overwhelms its servers, rendering it inaccessible.

A few minutes after the Cloudflare service was withdrawn, 8chan did indeed become unavailable.

However, 8chan's site administrator says it was moving to another security firm, BitMitigate, based in the US state of Washington. BitMitigate's website says it has "a proven commitment to liberty".

BitMitigate stepped in to help neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer when it lost Cloudflare protection in 2017.

The BBC has approached BitMitigate for comment. But at this time 8Chan remains offline.

Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince had said, in the wake of Saturday’s shootings, that his firm would continue to support 8chan as its policy was to remain neutral over the type of content the service protected.

However, on Sunday evening Mr Prince wrote in a blog post that "8chan has repeatedly proven itself to be a cesspool of hate”.

“They have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths,” Mr Prince wrote.

"Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit.”

Mr Prince warned that while 8chan would be disrupted by Cloudflare’s decision, it would likely be able to rebuild itself - as was the case when Cloudflare stopped providing protection for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi site, in 2017.

“They quickly came back online using a Cloudflare competitor,” Mr Prince wrote.

"That competitor at the time promoted as a feature the fact that they didn't respond to legal process.

He added: "I have little doubt we'll see the same happen with 8chan. While removing 8chan from our network takes heat off of us, it does nothing to address why hateful sites fester online. It does nothing to address why mass shootings occur. It does nothing to address why portions of the population feel so disenchanted they turn to hate.

"In taking this action we've solved our own problem, but we haven't solved the internet’s.”

How do Cloudflare and BitMitigate services work?

The two companies protect websites from attacks, as well as making websites load more quickly for legitimate users.

They can be thought of as a kind of bouncer or security guard for websites that get a large amount of traffic, or may be a likely target of cyber-attacks.

They use technology that can verify where internet traffic is coming from and what it is trying to do.

They can distinguish whether the visitor is a genuine person, a network of automated bots that is being used to flood a website or requests that keep servers too busy to handle normal uses.

They are meant to block any attempts from "bad" traffic getting through.

Cloudflare provides protection for more than 12 million websites, and is expected to float on the stock market later this year.

Chief executive Matthew Prince has expressed concern at the power his company has to decide whether or not a website is able to exist on the open internet.

8chan is a forum created in 2013 by Fredrick Brennan as an alternative to 4chan, a message board popular with gamers. 8chan promised less moderation of controversial topics and images that were being removed from 4chan. As such, 8chan has hosted far-right extremist views and imagery.

Mr Brennan gave up ownership of 8chan in 2015 and has since called for it to be shut down. Following Cloudflare’s announcement, he wrote on Twitter: "Thank you so much @CloudFlare Finally this nightmare might have an end.”

8chan is now owned and run by Jim Watkins, a former US army veteran, believed to be living in the Philippines.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince said in the past he should not have the power to essentially force sites off the internet

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Do you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370 </s> EL PASO: Two more victims of a shooting rampage at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, died of their wounds on Monday (Aug 5), police said, raising the death toll to 22 in the massacre as US President Donald Trump planned a visit to the stricken community.

The latest fatalities bring to 31 the number of people killed during the weekend in mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, that have touched off a new furore over gun violence in the United States.

Patrick Crusius, 21, has been charged with a single count of capital murder in the El Paso case, court documents show, in what is likely a legal place holder to keep him in custody while the investigation is under way.

Authorities have cited a lengthy anti-immigrant manifesto, apparently posted online by the suspect before the Saturday morning shooting in the heavily Hispanic border city, which they said was evidence the bloodshed was racially motivated.

Eight of those killed in the attack were Mexican citizens, according to the Mexican government.

The four-page statement uploaded to 8chan, a largely un-moderated online message board often used by extremists, called the Walmart attack "a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas".

It also expressed support for a gunman who killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March.

The El Paso killings prompted 8chan founder Frederick Brennan, in an interview with the New York Times, to call for the site to be shut down. Brennan no longer has control of 8chan, which is now run from the Philippines by a US Army veteran, the Times reported.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Saturday's rampage appeared to be a hate crime and federal prosecutors called it domestic terrorism. A Texas prosecutor said the state will seek the death penalty against Crusius if he is convicted.

Trump said Americans "must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy" and blamed the Internet and violent video games for fostering violence.

El Paso Mayor Dee Margo told reporters at an afternoon news conference that Trump would visit the city on Wednesday. The mayor asked that the visit amid a divisive gun control debate not be politicised.

US gun control activists say the Internet and video games cannot be blamed because they are also are popular in countries where mass shootings are virtually unknown, in part because it is harder to obtain a firearm.

It was unclear if Crusius had retained a lawyer or would make an initial court appearance. El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said the suspect was cooperating with investigators.

The suspect's grandparents said in a statement read to reporters by a family outside their home in the Dallas suburb of Allen, 1,046km east of El Paso, that they were devastated by the attack.

"He lived with us in our house in Allen, Texas, while he attended Collin College," they said. "He moved out of our house six weeks ago and has spent a few nights here while we were out of town."

FBI Director Christopher Wray told a congressional panel on Jul 23 that the bureau has recorded about 100 arrests of domestic terrorism suspects in the preceding nine months and that most investigations of that kind involve some form of white supremacy.

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The Texas rampage was followed just 13 hours later by the mass shooting in Ohio and came a week after a man shot dead three people at a California garlic festival before taking his own life.

In Dayton, Ohio, a gunman in body armour and a mask killed nine people in less than a minute and wounded 27 others in the downtown historic district before he was shot dead by police.

Police said the El Paso suspect opened fire with a rifle on Walmart shoppers, many of them bargain-hunting for back-to-school supplies, then surrendered to officers who confronted him outside the store.

In El Paso, residents on Monday brought crosses representing each of the victims to a growing memorial site near the store.

El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, together with the neighbouring city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, form a metropolitan border area of 2.5 million residents constituting the largest bilingual, bi-national population in North America.

Trump has derided asylum seekers and other immigrants coming across the US southern border as liars and criminals, prompting Democrats to accuse him of racism. </s> EL PASO, Texas — Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen were injured Saturday after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The suspect is 21-year-old Patrick Crusius of Allen, Texas, according to the Associated Press.

El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen did not identify Crusius, however records show Crusius has been booked into the El Paso County Jail on capital murder charges.

Authorities are investigating the possibility the shooting was a hate crime. El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said authorities are investigating whether a racist, anti-immigrant document posted online shortly beforehand was written by the Crusius.

In the document, the writer expresses concern that an influx of Hispanics into the United States will replace aging white voters, potentially turning Texas blue in upcoming elections and swinging the White House to the Democrats.

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The document was also critical of Republicans for what was described as close ties to corporations and degradation of the environment.

Though a Twitter account that appears to belong to Crusius included pro-Trump posts praising the plan to build more border wall, the writer of the online document says his views on race predated Trump's campaign and that any attempt to blame the president for his actions was "fake news."

Though the writer denied he was a white supremacist, the document says "race mixing" is destroying the nation and recommends dividing the United States into territorial enclaves determined by race. The first sentence of the four-page document expresses support for the man accused of killing 51 people at two New Zealand mosques in March after posting his own document with a conspiracy theory about nonwhite migrants replacing whites. </s> Cloudflare has become the latest company to drop the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer in the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a protester was killed.

The San Francisco, Calif.-based networking and website protection company's chief executive Matthew Prince said in an email that he personally made the decision.

"I don't think it's CloudFlare's policy and I think it's an extremely dangerous decision in a lot of ways," said Prince in the email, seen by The Verge. (We reached out to Cloudflare and several executives prior to publication but did not hear back.)

Prince said that he "pulled the plug" on the Daily Stormer after one its readers suggested that Cloudflare supported the site's neo-Nazi and racist ideologies by providing service.

The news was first reported on Twitter after a message from the website's founder Andrew Auernheimer, known as Weev, was leaked.

The website has faced difficulty in finding web hosting after its domain provider GoDaddy dropped the site for violating its terms of service. After Google also canceled the site's service later in the day, the site later took to the dark web, which can only be accessed through the Tor anonymity network.

Sister-site CNET reported this week that Reddit, Facebook, and gaming chat program Discord have in the past day all banned communication tools on their respective services.

Twitter also suspended several accounts on Wednesday associated with the neo-Nazi website.

It comes days after a weekend of violence in the Virginia town where the site had been involved in organizing a white supremacist rally. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed and dozens were injured when James Fields, 20, who attended the rally, plowed a car into a crowd of protesters on Saturday.

But Cloudflare's decision comes in the face of criticism towards the company, after it had initially declined to pull its services offering protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks.

The company, which doesn't host content but provides the networking support and attack protection, had described the content on sites like the Daily Stormer as "repugnant," but would not call out the site directly.

Cloudflare has long taken an absolutist approach to free speech, allowing what Prince called "horrible people" to use the company's services.

"If you have companies making moral judgments on what's good and bad, that worries me a lot," said Prince in an interview with ZDNet in 2015.

He added: "If a final court order comes down and says we can't do something -- governments have tanks and guns."

He said in the interview that he didn't "ever want to be in the position" where the company should have to decide between "good content and bad content," he said. "If a court comes and says you can't provide service to someone, we'll do everything we can within the law to challenge the order." </s> A busy Walmart became a grisly crime scene Saturday morning when El Paso police say 21-year-old Patrick Crusius took aim at shoppers and store employees.

Another person died Monday morning, officials said, bringing the number of fatalities to 21. More than two dozen additional people were injured.

Here are five things to know about Crusius:

1.) From Allen, Texas. The suspect's last known address is in Allen, just north of Dallas. That's 650 miles away from where the shooting took place. Up until a few weeks ago, CBS News reports Crusius, 21, lived with his grandparents while attending nearby Collin College. "We are devastated by the events of El Paso and pray for the victims of this tragedy," the family said, in part, in a written statement Sunday.

2.) Used an AK-47. Intelligencer says video from the Walmart shows Crusius with an AK-47-style assault rifle and a large amount of ammunition. The shooting started in the parking lot before continuing inside the store.

3.) Manifesto posted. Minutes before the shooting, a racially charged manifesto believed to have been written by Crusius was posted on 8chan, an online forum. "This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas," the manifesto said, in part, according to The New York Times. NBC News reported that Cloudflare, an internet hosting company, said Monday it was dropping 8chan as a client following the deadly shooting.

4.) Death penalty will be sought. El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza said he intends to seek the death penalty, according to the New York Post. "The state charge is capital murder, and so he is eligible for the death penalty," Esparza said at a news conference. "We will seek the death penalty. The loss of life is so great, we certainly have never seen this in our community." In Texas, the death penalty is administered via lethal injection.

5.) Domestic terrorism. Almost immediately after the Walmart shooting, investigators labeled it as an act of domestic terrorism. John Bash, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, said the crime was "designed to intimidate a civilian population." "We’re going to do what we do to terrorists in this country, which is deliver swift and certain justice," Bash said. The FBI's hate-crimes team has been activated to look into Crusius' past, the Texas Tribune says. </s> AMERICA has been rocked by two gun massacres in 13 hours, with 29 people killed by young white men with assault rifles in Dayton, Ohio and the US-Mexico border town of El Paso.

Connor Betts appeared to be targeting his sister, who police said was one of nine fatalities when he shot into a crowd of mainly young people celebrating outdoors at an entertainment district.

Betts, who was wearing body armour, was killed in less than a minute by police patrolling the area.

He had no criminal record and his social media profiles did not initially appear to show any link to extremist ideology.

The Sunday morning attack was America's 252nd mass shooting this year, according to the independent Gun Violence Archive.

In El Paso, the young white supremacist with a grudge against the "Hispanic invasion of Texas", seemed to waiver in the lead-up to his vile, white-rage fueled assault on Saturday.

In a manifesto believed by police to have been written by the 21-year-old who perpetuated America's worst gun massacre since the carnage that killed 59 in Las Vegas in October, 2017, he expressed some doubt about the evil he had spent planning for "maybe a month, probably less".

"I have to do this before I lose my nerve," Patrick Crusius is believed to have squirmed in a four-page screed posted online hours before two mass shootings rocked the US.

But buoyed by admiration for Christchurch mosque attacker Brenton Tarrant, bewilderingly easy access to battle-ready weapons, toxic online chatrooms and increasingly febrile national debate about race and immigration as America barrels toward the 2020 election, the white supremacist strolled into a Walmart carpark and let loose with a semiautomatic rifle.

It was a blazing 38 degrees in the US-Mexico border city of El Paso, which just days ago was lauded by its high profile presidential candidate, Beto O'Rourke, during the second Democrat debate as "one of the safest cities in the United States of America, not despite but because it's a city of immigrants, and asylum seekers, and refugees."

Hundreds of people, including the loved ones of the 20 dead and the 26 who are fighting for their lives, can only wish Crusius had listened harder to the voices urging him to hold fire.

A coward in every way, he used a semiautomatic weapon to mow down victims ranging from a four-month-old baby to an 82-year-old, many of them out with family to take advantage of "back to school" sales as the summer holidays wind down.

The evil started in the carpark of the Cielo Vista mall in the west Texas city that sits across the border from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just before 10.40am.

Crusius, who lived nine hours away in Dallas, fired at a groups who was fundraising by selling bottles of water to shoppers, one of his victims left sprawling beside a folding table under an umbrella.



 He then walked into Walmart, rifle raised, with ear muffs and protective eyewear for himself but nothing to save the shoppers at whom he fired as he strolled from aisle to aisle.

Witnesses described an elderly woman, a tiny baby, scores of others falling to his semiautomatic spray. The wounded were later wheeled out of the sprawling supermarket on shopping trolleys.

"The situation is, needless to say, horrific," said El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen.

And although Crusius boasted in his warped online posting that he was ready to die for his beliefs, saying "I'm to going to surrender even if I run out of ammo", he thankfully did lay down his weapon and hand himself into police without any further gunfire.

Another example of how his boasting online words were just more snivelling cowardice in the end.

El Paso Police Sergeant Robert Gomez told reporters the suspect was speaking to investigators. "His motives and what transpired are being investigated," Sgt Gomez said, adding he has not been formally charged.

"This is the most traumatic scene that I've been close to and I can tell you that the investigators are doing their best to complete this investigation proper with the respect and dignity the victims deserve, but it is tough to see this type of heinous crime occur in your community."

Facing capital murder charges from Texas authorities which carry the death penalty, as well as a domestic terrorism and hate crime probe from the FBI, there will possibly be some small measure of justice for his victims. But none of it will bring them back, and nothing short of a miracle will cure an increasingly divided America's utterly tragic gun violence epidemic.

The horror at El Paso wasn't the only shooting to unfold. Hours after residents there learnt the reality of the gunman's carnage, a second shooting unfolded at a bar in Dayton, Ohio.

Nine people were killed by a gunman in that shooting, who also died at the scene.

Dayton police tweeted that an active shooter situation began in the Oregon District at 1 am local time, but officers nearby were able to "put an end to it quickly."

Lt. Col. Matt Carper said at a press conference that the suspect was shot to death by responding officers.

At least 16 others were taken to local hospitals with injuries, police said. No details about the victims were released.

Carper said the Ohio gunman used a long gun and fired multiple rounds.

The shooting took place outside Ned Peppers Bar, on the 400 block of East 5th Street.

"This is extremely unusual, obviously, for any community, let alone Dayton," Carper said. "In our Oregon District, this is unheard of."

Alleged 21-year-old gunman Patrick Crusius opens fire on Walmart shoppers in Texas, killing 20 and injuring 26, including three children. He then calmly surrenders to an approaching SWAT team. Police investigating links to white nationalism.

Santino William Legan, 19, guns down revellers at a California food festival, killing two children - a 6-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl - and a 25-year-old man. Dozens more are injured before the gunman is killed in a shootout with police.

Disgruntled worker DeWayne Craddock opens fire, killing 12 people and wounding several others before he is gunned down by police.

Gary Martin kills five co-workers during a disciplinary meeting where he was fired. He wounds one other employee and five of the first police officers to arrive at the suburban Chicago plant before he is killed during a shootout with police.

Ian David Long kills 12 people at a country music bar, before taking his own life. Long was a Marine combat veteran of the war in Afghanistan.

Robert Bowers opens fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during Shabbat morning services, killing 11 and injuring others. It's the deadliest attack on Jews in the US in history.

Jarrod Ramos shoots through the windows of the Capital Gazette newspaper offices in Annapolis, Maryland, killing five. Authorities say Ramos had sent threatening letters to the newspaper prior to the attack.

Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, opens fire during an art class at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. He kills eight students and two teachers and 13 others are wounded. Explosives are found at the school and off campus.

Nikolas Cruz shoots and kills 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. It surpasses Columbine High School as the deadliest shooting at a high school in US history.

10. First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, November 5, 2017: 25 and an unborn child killed

Devin Patrick Kelley walks into a small church in rural Texas, shooting dead s 25 people and an unborn child. The shooter is found dead after the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history.

Stephen Paddock, 64, fires from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on a crowd of more than 20,000 gathered on the Las Vegas Strip for a country music festival. He kills 58 people and injures more than 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Police believe the gunman then killed himself.

Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, opens fire inside Pulse, a gay nightclub, in Orlando, killing at least 49 people and injuring more than 50 are injured. Police shoot and kill Mateen during an operation to free hostages officials say he was holding at the club.

Student Seung-Hui Cho, 23, goes on a shooting spree, killing 32 people in two locations and wounding an undetermined number of others on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. The shooter dies by suicide.

Adam Lanza, 20, kills 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, before turning the gun on himself. The shooter also killed his mother.

Unnamed shooter shot by police after opening fire at Ned Peppers Bar. </s> EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas (all times local):

Authorities say another person has died from a weekend mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, raising the death toll in that attack to 21.

El Paso police tweeted that the latest victim died early Monday morning at a hospital. No other details were immediately provided.

More than two dozen people were wounded in the attack. The suspected gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, has been booked on capital murder charges.

Speaking from the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump condemned the El Paso mass shooting and another in Dayton, Ohio, hours later in his first public remarks since the attacks.

Federal and state authorities continue to investigate the mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart that left 20 people dead and more than two dozen others injured.

Police said Sunday that all bodies have been removed from the store and its parking lot, and that the attack did not spread to other nearby shopping areas. Police Sgt. Robert Gomez says most of the victims were inside the store.

Twenty-one-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius of Allen, Texas, has been booked on capital murder charges and jailed without bond. KDFW-TV reports his grandparents issued a statement Sunday saying they were "devastated" by the rampage.

Allen is more than 600 miles (965 kilometers) from where Saturday's rampage occurred. The FBI says the suspect didn't have any contacts in El Paso.

Detectives are also trying to determine with a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly before Saturday's shooting was written by Crusius. </s> Police officers walk behind a Walmart at the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Patrick Crusius, 21, opened fire Saturday at the mall that largely caters to the local Mexican-American community. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Police officers walk behind a Walmart at the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Patrick Crusius, 21, opened fire Saturday at the mall that largely caters to the local Mexican-American community. (AP Photo/John Locher)

New details on the accused El Paso shooter shows he had a “stone cold look” when he surrendered on Saturday.

Patrick Crusius is being held without bond and facing charges that make him eligible for the death penalty. The 22-year-old drove ten hours from his home in Allen, Texas when he reportedly got lost and stopped at the Walmart because he was hungry.

Police say he then gunned down 22 people including at least eight Mexican nationals. El Paso’s police chief says Crusius has been cooperative but shown no remorse.
8chan is taken offline after San Francisco-based Cloudflare cuts support for the site in response to the perpetrator Patrick Crusius posting his white nationalist manifesto The Inconvenient Truth on the site shortly before killing 22 people and injuring 24 others at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas which was an anti-Hispanic terrorist attack.