Texas shooting spree: Texas gunman kills one, wounds five in shooting spree

Texas shooting spree: A gunman, shooting at random from his pickup truck, killed one and wounded five before a shootout with Texas?law enforcement ended his shooting spree.

By Daniel Trotta,?Reuters / May 27, 2013

A plastic replica of a bullet is used to remove a magazine from an assault rifle in a demonstration at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 15, 2012. Police recovered an assault rifle, a handgun, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from the gunman involved in a Texas shooting spree.

Rich Pedroncelli / AP

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A gunman randomly firing from his pickup truck killed one person and wounded five, including the sheriff of Concho County, Texas, on Sunday before the suspect was killed in a shootout with law enforcement, officials said.

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Authorities recovered an assault rifle, a handgun, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from the suspect, who was said to be 23 years old and from North Carolina. The name was withheld pending notification of relatives, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement.

The statement identified the dead victim as Alicia Torres, 41, who was shot dead in her car, the statement said.

The Texas Rangers, local law enforcement and Texas Parks and Wildlife were investigating multiple scenes in Concho County, about 250 miles (400 km) southwest of Dallas, following the early morning shooting spree.

The first incident took place about 4:30 a.m. when the suspect opened fire on vehicle near Eden, wounding a woman, who was later hospitalized in San Angelo, the statement said.

The suspect wounded two more people a short time later as they sat in their vehicle outside a convenience store in Brady, and then returned to Eden, where he fired on another vehicle and wounded another person. Those three were treated and released.

About 6 a.m., Torres was found shot to death in her car in Eola.

Some 15 minutes later, Concho County Sheriff Richard Doane encountered the suspect on a highway north of Eden. The sheriff was wounded and taken to a San Angelo hospital with non-life threatening injuries, the statement said.

The gunman was killed in a shootout with a Highway Patrol trooper and game warden who arrived to assist the sheriff, the statement said.

(Editing by Bill Trott)

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