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, Reuters reported.
Authorities recovered an assault rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition by the 23-year-old suspect from North Carolina. The name was withheld pending notification of relatives, the Department of Public Safety said in a statement.
The statement identified the dead victim as Alicia Torres who was shot dead in her car.
The Texas Rangers, local law enforcement and Texas Parks and Wildlife were investigating multiple scenes in Concho County, about 250 miles southwest of Dallas, following the early morning shooting spree.
The first incident took place about 4:30 a.m. when the suspect opened fire. Torres found was shot to death in her car in Eola.
He wounded two more people a short time later as they sat in their vehicle outside a convenience store in the small town of Brady, and then returned to Eden, where he fired on another vehicle and wounded another person.
Those three were treated and released, Reuters added.
The gunman was killed in a shootout with a Highway Patrol trooper and game warden who arrived to assist the sheriff, the statement said.
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