This archive report was first published on 5 August 2019.
On August 4, 2019, two mass shootings in the United States left 29 people dead and sparked accusations that President Donald Trump's rhetoric was part of the problem.
The shootings occurred in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, with 20 people killed at a Walmart in El Paso and nine outside a bar in Dayton.
President Trump said, "Hate has no place in our country," but he also blamed mental illness for the violence.
"These are really people that are very, very seriously mentally ill," he said, despite the fact that police have not confirmed this to be the case.
Police named the gunman in the Dayton shooting as Connor Betts, a 24-year-old white man, and said that his sister was among those killed.
She had gone with him to the scene of the massacre.
Six of the nine people shot dead in Dayton were black, but the motive behind the shooting was still unclear.
Police said the suspected shooter in the El Paso shooting, Patrick Crusius, had posted online a manifesto denouncing a "Hispanic invasion" of Texas.
El Paso, on the border with Mexico, is majority Latino.
At least six of the 20 people killed in the El Paso shooting were Mexican, the country's president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said on August 4, 2019.
