The shootings began with a traffic stop and ended in an exchange of gunfire with police in a movie theater parking lot. The attacks were all the more terrifying for their apparent randomness.
The death toll in a West Texas mass shooting increased to eight Sunday, including the gunman, authorities said.
The shooter, who was firing from his vehicle, has been identified only as a white man in his 30s. His motives were unclear. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who recently formed a commission to look into the El Paso shootings and planned to visit Odessa on Sunday, said in a statement: “I want to remind all Texans that we will not allow the Lone Star State to be overrun by hatred and violence.”
At the time there were unconfirmed reports of a second gunman, only adding to the chaos of the rapidly evolving shooting rampage, which began with a trooper from the Department of Public Safety being shot after stopping the gunman’s gold Honda between Midland and Odessa.Zindy Galindo was heading to Walmart that afternoon with her 3-year-old son when she was nearly cut off by an erratic driver who shot at the vehicle ahead of her.
Vehicles parked along the street were punctured with bullets. A 17-month-old girl was among the bystanders wounded in the attack. They continued to report remotely on the chaos of shoppers running through the mall until police determined the mall was clear.
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