HOUSTON (AP) — Nine people were shot and wounded, one critically, in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning by a lawyer who had issues with his law firm, authorities said.
The first report of the shootings began at about 6:30 a.m., Police Chief Martha Montalvo said at a news conference, and when officers arrived, the suspect began firing at them. Police shot the man, whom Montalvo did not identify and who later died at the scene.
Numerous weapons were found at the scene, Montalvo said, and a bomb-squad robot is looking at a Porsche that’s believed to be the shooter’s.
Some witnesses have described the gunman firing dozens of shots at cars passing through a condo complex, which is near the affluent West University Place community. Several cars with bullet holes and shattered windows were at a parking lot near the condo complex.
Of the nine wounded, one is in critical condition, another is in serious condition and three people were treated and released, Montalvo said.
Mayor Sylvester Turner, who is in Cuba for a trade mission, told KTRK-TV that the lawyer was “disgruntled.”
“He was either fired or had a bad relationship with this law firm,” Turner said.
“The investigation is active. It’s very, very early. We want to make sure there is no other gunman. We are checking every angle, I can assure you,” Turner told the TV station.
The shooting comes days after a shooting at a Washington state mall that left five people dead. On Sept. 17, a 20-year-old man stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall before being shot to death by an off-duty police officer.
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Damn lawyers. Now we have another terrorist organization to deport back to wherever they came from. Sad!
No wonder malls are dying. I wonder how state and local governments will react when shoppers only buy online because they fear for their safety at malls? All those sales tax revenues are threatened.
In FoxWorld, police don’t “shoot” people and never “kill” people." They “take down” people. Because it’s all just a big ol’ akshin moovie, and Bad Guys must be dehumanized.
Don’t get me wrong. Shooting him was appropriate. But distancing people from the reality of violence is what Fox does.
If they shop at amazon, the sales taxes will get paid. It’s the loss of payroll taxes that’s the problem.
I hope the shooter isn’t a Muslim.
Please. please, please don’t give Trump an opportunity to demagog this.