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		</div><h6 class="story-body__h1"><span class="balancedHeadline">At least five dead and up to 20 injured in r</span>andom gun attacks <span class="balancedHeadline">in area between Midlands and Odessa, Texas </span></h6>
<h6 class="css-1s4ffep e1h9rw200"><span class="balancedHeadline">A</span><span class="balancedHeadline"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">ttack began as a traffic stop &#8211; </span>A US Postal Service van was hijacked during the incident</span></h6>
<h6 class="css-1s4ffep e1h9rw200"><span class="balancedHeadline">Cops later announced the g<span style="color: var(--color-text);">unman, a White male in his mid-30s, h</span></span><span class="balancedHeadline">as been shot and killed </span></h6>
<h6 class="css-1s4ffep e1h9rw200"><span class="balancedHeadline"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Three law enforcement officers were shot and injured in gunfight with the suspect</span></span></h6>
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<h6 class="story-body__introduction"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-327859" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Odessa-Texas-police-react-to-random-mass-shooting-3.jpg" alt="Odessa, Texas police react to random mass shooting 3" width="1024" height="379" /><strong>Random shooting in the US state of Texas has left at least five people dead and many more injured, police say.</strong></h6>
<p class="story-body__introduction">A mass random shooting in the US state of Texas has left at least five people dead and many more injured, police say.<br />
At least one gunman shot randomly at people while driving round an area between the western cities of Odessa and Midland on Saturday afternoon.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Officials said that a man opened fire after a traffic stop and killed five people<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">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.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">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.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">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.<br />
</span>The shooter was shot and killed by police in the parking lot of the Cinergy movie theater in Odessa on Saturday.<br />
The incident began with an attempted traffic stop by a Texas Depart of Public Safety officer on Saturday at about 4.17pm ET.<br />
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.<br />
Shocking movie goers witnessed police confronting the suspect outside of the theater and engaging in a shootout.<br />
A US Postal Service van was hijacked during the incident.</p>
<h6 class="story-body__introduction"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-327864" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bullet-riddled-pickup-truck-on-Interstate-20-outside-Odessa-Tex.-on-Aug-31-2019.jpg" alt="Bullet riddled pickup truck on Interstate 20 outside Odessa, Tex., on Aug 31, 2019.jpg" width="1024" height="592" /><strong>Gunman shot randomly at people while driving round an area between the western cities of Odessa and Midland in Texas on Saturday afternoon</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__introduction"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-327878" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Odessa-Texas-police-react-to-random-mass-shooting-4.jpg" alt="Odessa, Texas police react to random mass shooting 4.JPG" width="954" height="488" />Cops confronted the gunman in a movie theater parking lot. He was killed in the shootout </strong></span></h6>
<p class="story-body__introduction">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.<br />
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.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">&#8220;A subject (possibly 2) is currently driving around Odessa shooting at random people,&#8221; </span>Odessa Police said in an <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2381994785223564&;id=824628704293521">Facebook post </a> at the time of the shootings.<br />
&#8220;At this time there are multiple gunshot victims. The suspect just hijacked a US mail carrier truck.&#8221;</p>
<p class="story-body__introduction"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-327856" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Odessa-Texas-police-tweet-on-random-mass-shooting-1.jpg" alt="Odessa, Texas police tweet on random mass shooting 1" width="614" height="549" /><br />
<a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.facebook.com/MidlandTxPD/posts/2388449461398141">Police in the neighbouring city of Midland said</a>: &#8220;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.&#8221;<br />
<a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.facebook.com/MidlandTxPD/posts/2388525118057242">They later posted</a>: &#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
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