Armed Trump supporter detained with gun and knife outside immigrant centre in El Paso
“He was outside the building acting strange, making threatening comments to volunteers outside because he saw that we had an anti-Trump sign on our window,” said community organiser Ana Tiffany Deveze.
The volunteers were so concerned – four days after 22 people were killed in a mass shooting in the city - that they locked themselves inside the Casa Carmelita building and called police.
Ms Deveze, 31, said: “While we waited I peeked out the window to see if I could see what he was doing in the truck and that’s when I saw that he had put on blue latex gloves and he had a pretty big knife in his hand.”
As they attempted to warn their neighbours, two women ran past “screaming that there was a man with a gun out front,” she added.
Officers from the El Paso police department arrived moments later and detained him next to his truck.