NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 05, 2019

Q: Twenty people were killed and another 26 were wounded Saturday during a mass shooting at a Walmart in the far west Texas city of El Paso. Early Sunday morning, another nine people were killed and 27 wounded wounded by a mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio. Where is Texas or Ohio?

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Q: Federal investigators in El Paso said they were treating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and prosecutors were considering hate crime charges. Most of El Paso’s people are . . .

A. African-American

B. Asian

C. European-American

D. Hispanic


D. Ethnically, the city is 82.8 percent Hispanic or Latino of any race. Shortly before the El Paso shooting, a 2,300-word anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic manifesto was posted online. Police said “it’s beginning to look more solidly” like it was written by the shooting suspect they had arrested.


Q: Officials in Mexico said a number of Mexican citizens shopping at the Walmart were killed or wounded in the attack. El Paso is on the border with the Mexican state of Chihuahua and is next to which U.S. state?

A. Arizona

B. New Mexico

C. Nevada

D. Utah


B. El Paso and Las Cruces, New Mexico, are part of a combined statistical area with a population of more than 1 million people. Across the Rio Grande from El Paso is the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez with a population of 1.4 million. The three cities combined have largest bilingual and binational work force in the Western Hemisphere.


Q: Dayton’s mayor said it took less than a minute for a man armed with an assault-style rifle to kill his sister along with eight others and wound another 27 people visiting a popular entertainment district. Dayton is a city of about 140,000 people which is about 50 miles north of which larger city?

A. Cincinnati

B. Cleveland

C. Columbus

D. Toledo


A. Cincinnati on the Ohio River is the state’s third largest city behind Columbus and Cleveland. It is followed in population by Toledo, Akron and sixth-place Dayton. The Dayton shooting suspect was quickly killed by police officers on routine patrol in the area.


Q: Dayton was the third mass shooting in a week by a young man using an assault-style rifle. Seven days earlier two children and an adult were killed and 12 others were wounded at a garlic festival in the small agricultural town of Gilroy, about 30 miles southeast of the city of San Jose in which state?

A. Arizona

B. Arkansas

C. California

D. Nevada


C. The youngest Gilroy victim was 6-year-old Stephen Romero from San Jose, California. The shooting suspect was killed in a shoot-out with police. He was armed with an AK-47 style rifle he had bought legally in Nevada, but it is illegal to possess the weapon in California.