Mass Shootings in Dayton and El Paso: Live Updates – The New York Times

But as mourning flirted with anger, faith leaders, in sermons and public addresses, cautioned people to not let their emotions morph into the kind of fury that ultimately fueled the violence.

“The attack happened because somebody wanted someone else to suffer,” the Rev. Benjamin Flores, a Roman Catholic priest and leader in the Diocese of El Paso, said after a prayer service on Sunday afternoon. “We cannot respond in the same way. We want to respond in a way where someone is healed.”

8chan has gone dark after a networking company cut it off.

8chan, the online message board where a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto was posted minutes before the El Paso shooting, vanished from the internet on Monday and remained offline several hours later, after a San Francisco company decided to stop providing vital network services to the site.

The forum went dark at about midnight in California. After the move was announced late Sunday by the company, Cloudflare, 8chan confirmed the change on Twitter and warned that an interruption in the site’s connectivity would probably follow.

“There might be some downtime in the next 24-48 hours while we find a solution (that includes our email so timely compliance with law enforcement requests may be affected),” 8chan wrote on Twitter.

The screed posted minutes before the El Paso shooting appeared to have been written by the gunman. If it was, then at least three mass shootings this year — including the mosque killings in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the synagogue shooting in Poway, Calif. — have been announced in advance on 8chan, which has become known as a forum for racist views.

[“Shut the site down,” 8chan’s creator says.]

The El Paso attack “underscores the continued threat” of domestic terrorism, the F.B.I. says.

Law enforcement officials said the massacre in El Paso was being investigated as a case of domestic terrorism and as a hate crime. In a statement on Sunday, the F.B.I. said that the attack “underscores the continued threat posed by domestic violence extremists and perpetrators of hate crimes.”