Texas lo shooting 5 dead.

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

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

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.

 

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