From the BBC's Lauren Turner in El Paso:

“Yesterday I was in shock. Today, my heart is hurting.”

Gilda Baeza Ortega is looking out at the Walmart in disbelief from across the car park.

“There are 19 bodies still in there,” she says, barely comprehending the fact. “I feel like I’m connected to those people, and their families.”

She had been on the way to the store yesterday morning then decided to go for breakfast with her parents instead.

But it’s not just that that makes her feel so close to what’s happened.

“It’s the fact he was targeting us. I’m a Mexican American and very proud of that. To me that is the biggest wound,” she says.

People have been coming here all day to lay flowers, a cross, even a Rubik’s cube, in tribute.

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Some people are also asking police when they can retrieve their cars from Walmart’s car park, where vehicles with Mexican number plates sit alongside those with American plates. One officer told me it could be eight hours from now.

It’s a popular place for people to come shopping from Mexico and it means many now can’t make the return journey, their passports being locked in their vehicles.

Willa Melendez says with El Paso being so close to the Mexican border, “it doesn’t feel like we’re two countries - we go back and forth”.

She adds “we’re a city of diversity - so this hurts”.

Everyone talks of what a friendly place it is, how everyone knows each other. A taxi driver talks of the “six degrees of separation” here. She's dreading the list of names coming out, worried she knows one of the victims.

Everyone talks of how safe El Paso is too.

They can’t quite believe that this has been visited on them - on what should have been just another ordinary Saturday morning at the supermarket.