Horrific Shooting at Texas Leaves 5 People Dead And 20 People Wounded

Tragedy struck Texas as five people were dead and a child under two years old was among more than 20 wounded after a man stopped by Texas state troopers for failing to signal a turn opened fire. He then went on to hijack a mail truck and rampaged by shooting people at random.The shooting happened between Odessa and Midland on Saturday afternoon. It was the second mass shooting in Texas in a month, prompting renewed and angry calls for meaningful gun reform.

Among responses from contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, Beto O’Rourke, formerly a congressman for El Paso, where a gunman killed 22 people a Walmart on 3 August, told an audience in Virginia: “This is fucked up.”The suspect was described by Odessa’s police chief, Michael Gerke, as a white male in his 30s. He was chased down and shot and killed in a parking lot outside a cinema between Odessa and Midland after a showdown.

Police did not say if the number of dead included the gunman. An update was expected on Sunday morning.Seven people remained in critical condition at one hospital, said Russell Tippin, chief executive of Medical Center hospital in Odessa. Tippin said the child under two was transported to another hospital. Hospital officials later said the boy was airlifted to Lubbock. Another death was reported at the hospital though it hasn’t been declared about whom.