A brave solider who helped carry children to safety after the El Paso shooting cried for those he couldn't save.

Army Specialist Glendon Oakley broke down during an interview, calling the attack the "worst thing he had been through in his life."

Mr Oakley was off-duty and shopping at the Cielo Vista Mall when he said a child ran into the store and said there was an active shooter at the nearby Walmart on Saturday.

He saw children running in the corridors of the mall and carried several to safety.

He said: "I'm just focused on the kids that I could not get and the families that were lost, because it hurts me like they were part of me," he said with tears in his eyes, outside Fort Bliss army base, where he is stationed.

"I don't want to think about what happened because it was a tragedy. I'm telling you, this was the worst thing I've ever been through in my life and I don't want to keep having flashbacks of what happened and I don't want to talk about what went on in there, because I just want to forget about it," he said.

The massacre happened near the mall, a few miles from the US-Mexican border at 10.39am local time.

A 21-year-old man is in custody after police responded within six minutes. Police said the suspect was a resident of the Dallas-area city of Allen, about 650 miles (1,046km) east of El Paso.

He has been named as Patrick Crusius.

CCTV images said to be of the gunman show a man in a dark T-shirt wearing ear protectors and brandishing an assault-style rifle during the attack which killed 20 and injured 26.

He is believed to have posted an online document calling the attack a response to "the Hispanic invasion of Texas".

Shoppers fled for their lives after the gunman opened fire in the car park before storming the store and shooting "aisle to aisle", according to reports.

After the attack, the gunman stepped out of his vehicle unarmed and handed himself to police and has since been charged with capital murder.

Cops also believe that he wrote a 2,300-word racist essay that talks about America being overrun by Hispanic immigrants.

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