The author of the shooting in El Paso (Texas, USA), where 22 people died last weekend, confessed to the police when he was arrested that his goal was to kill "Mexicans," according to a document accessed by the newspaper today. 'The Washington Post'.

The alleged person responsible for the attack, Patrick Crusius, 21, told police that he was the one who opened fire on a crowd at a Walmart shopping center in the border city of El Paso where many Mexican citizens usually go to buy.

Crusius drove almost 10 hours , from Allen to El Paso, to commit the killing in that supermarket and allegedly published a manifesto on the internet in which he said the attack was a "response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas . "

According to the newspaper document, Crusius was inside his vehicle near the Walmart when he was arrested after the killing.

He got out of his car with his hands up and identified the police: "I am the author of the shooting . "

The document is written by Detective Adrián García, who says that, already in police custody, Crusius acknowledged that, "once he arrived at the store, he opened fire using an AK-47 (assault rifle) and shooting multiple innocent victims ".

Federal authorities have described Crusius' attack as a crime of domestic terrorism and have said they are evaluating him for hate crimes, which added to the murder charges could lead him to face the death penalty.

Of the 22 killed in the shooting, eight were Mexican citizens and, therefore, the Mexican Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, has said he is studying to ask the United States for the extradition of the accused.

To address this and other issues, a meeting will be held next Tuesday in Mexico City between high-level authorities in Mexico and the US , the Mexican government reported Thursday.

The shooting in El Paso occurred hours before another white man - identified as Connor Betts - opened fire in a popular leisure area in the town of Dayton (Ohio), killing among others his sister Megan, 22, the Younger victim of that tragedy.

These shootings, which occurred 13 hours apart, have rekindled the debate over arms control in the US, where Congress has not passed a law that has significantly limited their possession for more than two decades, in part due to the influence of the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA).

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