Blink-182 'Locked Down' in Hotel Following El Paso Shooting
Mark Hoppus and his bandmates in blink-182 are "locked down" in their El Paso hotel room following a shooting that resulted in multiple fatalities at a nearby shopping center.
On Saturday (Aug. 3), Hoppus tweeted that he was en route to a mall when his security team informed him that there was an active shooter near their destination. They returned to their hotel, where news of another shooting in the area broke: "over the intercom system they just announced that there are reports of another active shooter directly across the street at a location different from the first shootings."
we are locked down in our hotel in el paso. over the intercom system they just announced that there are reports of another active shooter directly across the street at a location different from the first shootings.
— mark hoppus.--️-- (@markhoppus) August 3, 2019
CBS News reports that local law enforcement indicated there were two shooters at a Walmart near El Paso's Cielo Vista Mall, and that there were multiple deaths from the attack, which took place early Saturday afternoon.
blink-182 are currently on tour with Lil Wayne, and scheduled to play El Paso's Don Haskins center on Sunday (Aug. 4).
Read the rest of Hoppus' account in full below.
we were leaving breakfast when our security texted that there was an active shooter at the mall we were headed to. saw dozens of police cars on the freeway and surface streets. helicopters. we got back to the hotel and turned on the news to see what was happening. then
— mark hoppus.--️-- (@markhoppus) August 3, 2019
the intercom said there are reports of another shooting across the street at the bassett place mall. i don’t see or hear police or helicopters so hopefully it’s just an over abundance of caution and someone got the malls confused. so terrible.
— mark hoppus.--️-- (@markhoppus) August 3, 2019
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