Police take down mass shooter in west Texas parking lot after he shot dead five and injured 21, including three officers – White male in his mid-30s went on ‘indiscriminate’ rampage following traffic stop
At least five dead and up to 20 injured in random gun attacks in area between Midlands and Odessa, Texas
Attack began as a traffic stop – A US Postal Service van was hijacked during the incident
Cops later announced the gunman, a White male in his mid-30s, has been shot and killed
Three law enforcement officers were shot and injured in gunfight with the suspect
Random shooting in the US state of Texas has left at least five people dead and many more injured, police say.
A mass random shooting in the US state of Texas has left at least five people dead and many more injured, police say.
At least one gunman shot randomly at people while driving round an area between the western cities of Odessa and Midland on Saturday afternoon.
Officials said that a man opened fire after a traffic stop and killed five people
Five people were killed and 21 others were injured in a brazen daylight drive-by mass shooting near the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa on Saturday, as a gunman drove on the highways and streets opening fire on residents, motorists and shoppers, the authorities said.
The attacks terrified a region with a combined population of 263,000 at the start of Labor Day weekend. Police officers and state troopers tried to keep drivers off the highways.
Chief Michael Gerke of the Odessa Police Department said at a news conference on Saturday evening that the gunman, a male in his mid-30s, was dead, and that three law enforcement were shot. He did not give a motive, but said that the attack began as a traffic stop.
The shooter was shot and killed by police in the parking lot of the Cinergy movie theater in Odessa on Saturday.
The incident began with an attempted traffic stop by a Texas Depart of Public Safety officer on Saturday at about 4.17pm ET.
The fleeing suspect shot the officer, hijacked as US Postal Service mail truck and fired at random motorists along Interstate 20 before being taken down at the theater, police said.
Shocking movie goers witnessed police confronting the suspect outside of the theater and engaging in a shootout.
A US Postal Service van was hijacked during the incident.
Gunman shot randomly at people while driving round an area between the western cities of Odessa and Midland in Texas on Saturday afternoon
Cops confronted the gunman in a movie theater parking lot. He was killed in the shootout
A police spokesman confirmed five people had been killed and a further 21 had been injured. Police officers were among the victims, he told reporters.
The shootings come exactly four weeks after a gunman shot and killed 22 people and injured 24 others in the Texan city of El Paso.
“A subject (possibly 2) is currently driving around Odessa shooting at random people,” Odessa Police said in an Facebook post at the time of the shootings.
“At this time there are multiple gunshot victims. The suspect just hijacked a US mail carrier truck.”
Police in the neighbouring city of Midland said: “We believe there are two shooters in two separate vehicles. The two vehicles in question are: gold/white small Toyota truck and a USPS Postal Van. Please stay away from these areas and stay indoors.”
They later posted: “It has been confirmed that the active shooter was shot and killed at the Cinergy [cinema complex] in Odessa. There is no active shooter at this time. All agencies are investigating reports of possible suspects.”
Roof is interesting, he comes under the classification of “domestic terrorism” , to be proper he is actually a “terrorist”. Unfortunately there is no firm rule of detection or prevention on terrorists except forward intelligence intercept regarding terrorist actions and with regard to mass shooting ! “Domestic terrorism” is an abstraction of terrorism to a level of cause and ordered hate speech that may or may not involve a personal manifesto (e.g. like any terrorist simply “doing the job” not preaching).
What “is interesting” outside of “some form of grievance” being common among all mass shooters, another problem common among mass shooters is that 57 percent (ACTUALLY A !!!!MASSIVE!!!! STATISTICAL LEVEL OF COHERENCE FOR FORENSIC SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY) of mass shooters ==kill a relative,or spouse== among the victims of the mass shooting incident !!!
https://nyti.ms/2D1aLd7
Something no articles journalism or criminal-medical mention is the statistical number of either younger “reactive phase age or danger zone of age” much of the mass shooting is (in a bulk compounded metaphor of nutshell “school shooters”).
Perhaps they can ban under 25’s from semi-auto’s and ban the supply and accessibility of semi auto’s by any way to under 25’s. Other than that it’s rights as usual (As it is, Vietnam “was not the safest place from your own!!!” if you look up “during tour criminal records” of the US Army during the Vietnam war).
(Midland Odessa) Thith oneth a doothy!