Nine people have been massacred after an evil gunman stepped out of a car and started shooting people at random in an afternoon horror at a shopping mall.
One mother was killed shielding her son from the bullets with her body and a hero witness has described appalling scenes of traumatising carnage as he came across bodies strewn in the street.
The shooter was gunned down by brave cops but not after a brief but intense rein of terror that has shattered the peace of the weekend for a community in Texas and shone the spotlight once again on America's gun laws.
