Britney Lechuga said that during the incident, she and her mother and younger brother were in the women's clothing department.
"We just shopped, we were in the department of women's clothing, and were going to pay, but my mother heard that someone was doing construction work, hitting the wall or something like that," RIA Novosti quotes.
Then, when they realized that it was shooting, they ran out of the shopping center through an emergency exit.
“Crouch, crouch, she said to my younger brother and me. I grabbed my mother's hand, grabbed my younger brother, and we ran out through the emergency exit, ”she said.
According to the girl, the visitors of the shopping center were in a state of shock, shouting and trying to “hide under clothes”.
Lechuga also noted that there were many children in the shopping center, many could not find their parents.
Another eyewitness, Kendall Long, called the incident “domestic terrorism”, stressing that the shooter was trying to hurt as many people as possible.
“He wanted blood, he must have planned it,” said Long.
He also expressed the opinion that after the incident, El Paso is likely to no longer be considered one of the safest cities in the United States.
Earlier, American leader Donald Trump called the shooting in El Paso a manifestation of cowardice.
According to recent reports, among the victims of emergency - three Mexican citizens.
In turn, the Consulate General of Russia in Houston reported that there were no Russians among the victims.
According to media reports, the 21-year-old Patrick Crusios, a suspect in the shooting, earlier published a statement in which he supported a terrorist attack on a mosque in New Zealand in March of this year.