The shooter in El Paso, Texas, who killed twenty people Saturday in a mall, faces the death penalty, authorities said in the aftermath of the shooting.

The Texas authorities announced on Sunday that they will seek the death penalty against the shooter El Paso, who shot dead twenty people in a shopping center in the southern United States.

"The state's charge is capital punishment and therefore it incurs the death penalty, we will seek the death penalty," said Jaime Esparza, prosecutor of the press, during a press conference. El Paso.