Texas shooting spree, A
gunman randomly firing from his pickup truck killed one person and
wounded five, including the sheriff of Concho County, Texas, on Sunday
before the suspect was killed in a shootout with law enforcement,
officials said.
Authorities recovered an
assault rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from the
suspect, who was said to be 23 years old and from North Carolina. The
name was withheld pending notification of relatives, the Texas
Department of Public Safety said in a statement.
The statement identified the dead victim as Alicia Torres, 41, who was shot dead in her car, the statement said.
The
Texas Rangers, local law enforcement and Texas Parks and Wildlife were
investigating multiple scenes in Concho County, about 250 miles
southwest of Dallas, following the early morning shooting spree.
The
first incident took place about 4:30 a.m. when the suspect opened fire
on vehicle near Eden, wounding a woman, who was later hospitalized in
San Angelo, the statement said.
The
suspect wounded two more people a short time later as they sat in their
vehicle outside a convenience store in Brady, and then returned to
Eden, where he fired on another vehicle and wounded another person.
Those three were treated and released.
About 6 a.m., Torres was found shot to death in her car in Eola.
Some
15 minutes later, Concho County Sheriff Richard Doane encountered the
suspect on a highway north of Eden. The sheriff was wounded and taken to
a San Angelo hospital with non-life threatening injuries, the statement
said.
The gunman was killed in a
shootout with a Highway Patrol trooper and game warden who arrived to
assist the sheriff, the statement said.
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