Video shows Texas man shoot up meat market after worker refuses to accept counterfeit $50 bill: 'Watch what's gonna happen'



Surveillance video captured the moment that workers at a Mexican meat market scattered from gunfire after they refused to accept a counterfeit $50 bill from a customer, according to Texas police.

San Antonio police said they responded to numerous calls of a disturbance with a gun at the Culebra Meat Market 3 on Old Pearsall Road at about 10:30 a.m. on April 25.

Video shows the entire interaction between the man and a worker at the store. He goes up to the register with items to purchase and hands the woman some money.

The owner of the market told KENS-TV that she immediately identified the bill as counterfeit and refused to accept it. She also refused to give it back to the man and told him she was calling the police.

At one point, he tried to snatch the money from her, but she was able to pull away from him. They said he also threatened them by pretending to shoot at them with his fingers.

The man angrily left the market before warning her, "Watch what's gonna happen."

Video then shows glass shattering and workers running away after the market was shot up. Police said he had fired at them twice from his vehicle.

Some of the employees sustained minor injuries from the glass flying from the windows, police said, but no one was shot.

Police say the man fled the scene in a black vehicle down Old Sky Harbor Drive. They are asking for the public's help to identify the suspect and say there is a $5,000 reward for information that leads to his arrest and felony conviction.

Video shows that the suspect is heavily tattooed on his arms and on his head, which is bald.

The market released a statement about the incident on its official Instagram account.

Today, we are truly saddened by the senseless act of violence that occurred at our Old Pearsall location. This act of unspeakable violence has shaken an entire community. At Culebra Meat Market our top priority is to uphold and protect the safety and security of our employees and customers.

The statement went on say that the company was working with police to identify the suspect.

Here's the video of the incident:

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Father rushed to Allen Outlets to save son from mass shooting, but nothing would prepare him for what he experienced: 'Just unfathomable to see carnage'



A frantic father rushed to the Allen Premium Outlets on Saturday after his son informed him there was a shooting at the mall in Texas. However, nothing would prepare the concerned dad for what he would encounter next.

Steven Spainhouer – a former police officer and former Army officer – received a call from his son on Saturday. His son – who works at the H&M store at the Allen Premium Outlets – told Spainhouer that there was an active shooting situation. He said that he couldn't contact 911 because the phone lines were busy.

Spainhouer instructed his son to shelter in place and to not open the door.

Spainhouer then raced to the outlet mall, which took him approximately six minutes. He was surprised to see that no police or EMTs were at the site of the shooting.

Spainhouer told KHOU, "I never imagined in 100 years I would be thrust into the position of being the first first responder on the site to take care of people."

"I found seven people shot in front of the store," Spainhouer told MSNBC. He called 911 and told them, "We have a mass casualty incident."

"The first girl I walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes, so I felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side and she had no face," he explained.

Speaking about the third victim he attempted to help, "I started chest compressions on him, he spit up blood, and then he just looked at me and expired in front of me."

"The others were too far gone," he said.

Spainhouer found a child who survived the mass shooting by being protected by his deceased mother.

He said, "So when I rolled the mother over, he came out, and I asked him, 'Are you OK?'"

The boy said, "My mom is hurt, my mom is hurt."

"So rather than traumatize him anymore, I put him around the corner, sat him down," Spainhouer recalled. "He was covered from head to toe, like somebody poured blood on him."

"No one can see what they saw today and not be affected by it. It's not a situation that I would wish upon anybody. It's just unfathomable to see the carnage," he said.

"It's tough when you see a family that's out shopping, having fun, then get wiped off the face of the Earth because somebody with a gun has some other type of issue," Spainhouer declared.

Eight people were shot and killed at the Allen Premium Outlets, located about 25 miles north of Dallas. There are at least seven others injured during the mass shooting.

Authorities have yet to release the name of the shooter.

WFAA reported that the suspect is in his 30s and lived with his parents in Dallas.

The outlet noted that the FBI questioned the family at their Dallas home, adding that investigators "have also asked for a translator."

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White House uses Texas 'execution style' murders to push gun control — but omits key detail that derails narrative



The White House omitted a key detail on Monday as officials used a Texas shooting that left five people dead over the weekend, having been shot "execution style," to push for more gun control.

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre began the press briefing on Monday by noting the victims were murdered "by an individual armed with a powerful AR-15-style rifle" and said President Joe Biden "was briefed on the shooting on Saturday morning, and he and the first lady are praying for those killed in the attack."

That's when things turned political.

"But," she added, "the president believes prayers alone are not enough. Congress must act because what makes tragedies like this one all the more heart-wrenching is the fact that it is entirely within our power to take these weapons of war off our streets."

"The majority of Americans and the majority of gun owners support commonsense measures to reduce gun violence," she continued. "The president continues to believe that Congress must act without delay. It's not too late to save lives and prevent the next mass shooting."

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Noticeably absent from Jean-Pierre's remarks was any mention of key details about the suspected perpetrator.

The suspect, Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres, is a Mexican national who has a history of deportation and was allegedly in the U.S. illegally at the time of the murders. This means he was already legally prohibited from possessing a firearm.

It's not clear, then, how Congress could have acted to prevent the tragedy, as Jean-Pierre claimed the president believes. Lawmakers have already outlawed firearm possession by immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. On that front, law enforcement have not said how the suspect obtained the firearm used in the massacre.

Hundreds of law enforcement personnel are working to track down the suspected killer, whom police consider armed and dangerous. Unfortuately, the FBI said it has "zero leads" as to his whereabouts.

There is fear that he returned to Mexico.

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'I'm going in there!': Uvalde mother handcuffed by cops describes running into school during shooting, says police tried to silence her from telling her story



A Texas mother who defied Uvalde police officers and ran into the school during the mass shooting to save her children has come forward to tell her story despite alleged threats by law enforcement for her not to speak to the media.

On the morning of May 24, Angeli Gomez went to Robb Elementary School to see her kids' graduation ceremonies. At first, Gomez didn't want to take photos with her two sons because she was dusty from working at a farm earlier in the day. She reluctantly took a photo with her two boys and then went back to work.

Shortly after returning to the farm, Gomez received an urgent phone call from her mother informing her that there was a shooting at her sons' school. She got in her car and said she drove 100 mph to the school.

Gomez described the chaotic scene at Robb Elementary School after a shooter went on a deadly rampage.

"Right away as I parked, U.S. Marshals started coming toward my car saying that I wasn't allowed to be parked there," Gomez told CBS News.

"And he said, 'Well, we're gonna have to arrest you because you're being very uncooperative,'" the Uvalde mother explained. "I said, 'Well, you're gonna have to arrest me because I'm going in there. And I'm telling you right now, I don't see none of y'all in there. Y'all are standing with snipers and y'all are far away. If y'all don't go to go in there, I'm going in there.' He immediately put me in cuffs."

Immediately after the handcuffs were removed from Gomez, she sprinted toward the school. She got her one son out of his classroom.

The courageous mother then ran to get her second child, but was stopped by police.

She explained, "So I start yelling and I'm being uncooperative, and I'm like, 'Well, y'all ain't doing s**t! What are y'all doing? Y'all ain't doing s**t!.'"

Gomez said the teacher wouldn't open the door to the classroom where her son was and she was escorted out by police. However, Gomez ran back when she saw that her son's classroom was being evacuated.

"There was not one officer inside the school when I ran to my second son's classroom," Gomez exclaimed.

Gomez said she heard gunshots being fired during the evacuation and that it was still an active shooting situation.

"They could have saved many more lives," Gomez said as she broke into tears. "They could have gone into that classroom – and maybe two or three would have been gone – but they could have saved the whole class. They could have done something."

"If anything, they were being more aggressive on us parents that were willing to go in there," Gomez said of Ulvade police.

She told a police officer, "If anything, I need you to go in there with me to go protect my kids."

Gomez said law enforcement was more concerned with parents than going into the school.

Gomez was reluctant to speak to the media recently because she said that law enforcement threatened her. The Uvalde mother claimed that a police officer called her and told her that her probation – from a decade-old charge – could be violated if she continued to talk to the media. Gomez only gave the interview after a judge informed her that she wouldn't be punished for speaking to the media.

The Uvalde shooting ended with 19 children and two teachers dead.

Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been widely criticized for his team not responding to the shooting until over an hour after the carnage began.

Arredondo did not have his police radio with him when he arrived at the school, which may have caused a delay in communicating with police dispatchers, according to the New York Times.

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