Texas Shooting Leaves 5 Dead and At Least 21 Injured Near Odessa

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Texas Shooting Leaves 5 Dead and At Least 21 Injured Near Odessa

The attack began at a traffic stop, the authorities said, and the gunman is dead.

 

 

A pickup truck with bullet holes in the front window on Interstate 20 outside Odessa, Tex., on Saturday. Officials said that a man opened fire after a traffic stop and killed five people.CreditCreditErnst Villanueva, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

By Manny Fernandez, Neil Vigdor and Christopher Mele

• Aug. 31, 2019Updated 8:36 p.m. ET
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HOUSTON — Five people were killed and more than 20 others were injured in a brazen daylight drive-by mass shooting in 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 attack terrified two sister cities 20 miles apart with a combined population of 263,000 at the start of Labor Day weekend, just weeks after a gunman killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso.

Police officers and state troopers tried to keep drivers off the highways. A local university urged students and faculty to stay in their dorm rooms and offices. A television station in Odessa, KOSA-TV, evacuated their studio while they were covering the breaking news live on the air.

Three law enforcement officers were shot, according to the police. Officials said the gunman, a man in his mid-30s, was dead, although they declined to identify him or describe how he died.

More at  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/us/odessa-shootings.html