Shooting in Houston shopping Centre 26 Sep 2016

[jollyjacktar]

This madness is getting out of control.  Reports of 6 shot, shooter killed.

Updated
Shooting at Texas shopping centre injures 6, gunman shot dead

Attack appears to have started just after dawn and ended roughly an hour later, police say

CBC News  Posted: Sep 26, 2016 8:32 AM ET| Last Updated: Sep 26, 2016 9:54 AM ET
At least six people have been injured in a shooting at a shopping centre in Houston, Texas, according to local media and emergency officials.

The attack, which appears to have started just before dawn on Monday morning, ended roughly an hour later when police officers shot the assailant, Houston police said via Twitter.

Police said via Twitter the gunman was dead.

Mann said six victims, some of whom were shot while in their vehicles, were transported to hospital. Some were seriously injured, he said, while others suffered less severe "extremity injuries."

Active shooter scene still active but contained. Suspect DOA. Media staging area at Wells Fargo parking lot at 3900 Bissonnett & Weslayan.
— @houstonpolice 

Our bomb squad will be checking suspect's vehicle. Crime scene covers a multiple block area near Weslayan at Bissonnet.#hounews
— @houstonpolice 
Apparently alone

Others are believed to have been injured by flying glass and other debris. Local TV station ABC13 said earlier between seven and eight people were injured in the attack, which took place near the intersection of Bissonnet and Weslayan streets, near a strip mall and a number of residential buildings.

Police said they were not looking for other shooters.

The area is "believed to be contained," according to city officials.

A police bomb squad was dispatched to the area to investigate a vehicle, Fox 26 TV reported, adding a "shelter in place" order was issued for the area.

"I am just hearing the bullets literally whiz by my window," an unidentified woman who witnessed the shooting told the station as she stood next to a car with two bullet holes in the windshield.

 

[MacleodEE]

What in the world is wrong with people.
Hopefully everyone will be okay.  :-\

 

[jollyjacktar]

fast fingers, corrected above.  sorry

 

[mariomike]

JJT: Original reports did say six DOA's. 

"...appears to have started just before dawn..."

Photo: The red, yellow & green triage sections laid out to receive patients from the Houston shooting.

The alleged perp may have been a disgruntled lawyer?

 

[jollyjacktar]

Reports of nine wounded.  Gunman was apparently a Lawyer who went postal.  That's a strange twist.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/houston-shooting-1.3778752

 

[mariomike]

Gunman was apparently a Lawyer who went postal.  That's a strange twist.

Doesn't it usually work the other way around?

 

[Lightguns]

Reports of nine wounded.  Gunman was apparently a Lawyer who went postal.  That's a strange twist.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/houston-shooting-1.3778752

As usual, CBC insists on calling the shooter a victim. 

 

[dapaterson]

As usual, CBC insists on calling the shooter a victim.

Or possibly they are writing fast and not reviewing immediately to get information out quickly.

 

[MacleodEE]

Or possibly they are writing fast and not reviewing immediately to get information out quickly.

That is normally the case.

 

[brihard]

Gunman was apparently a Lawyer who went postal.

Registered mail, I assume?

 

[mariomike]

Lovely...

Houston shooting: First picture of 'disgruntled' lawyer in Nazi uniform who killed nine people in mass rampage ( sic - left as is )
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/houston-shooting-first-picture-disgruntled-8921557
Law enforcement sources said the Nathan DeSai was wearing a uniform with swastikas on it as he shot at people driving to work and exchanged gunfire with police

 

[Lightguns]

So there is a news story and picture of him converting to Islam two weeks ago and now a Nazi suit.  So, we have a mixed race, gun owning , Muslim lawyer in a Nazi uniform driving a Porsche. The Democrats and Republicans are going to have a hard time pigeon holing this guy.  Should be fun to watch though.

Edit:  I mean in the American political "blame the other party" sense not the "guys in the prettiest uniforms who keep losing wars" sense.  [

 

[George Wallace]

So there is a news story and picture of him converting to Islam two weeks ago and now a Nazi suit.  So, we have a mixed race, gun owning , Muslim lawyer in a Nazi uniform driving a Porsche. The Democrats and Republicans are going to have a hard time pigeon holing this guy.  Should be fun to watch though.

Historically, if you want to go back and look at German WW II organizations or organizations under their influence, you may find persons who held all those characteristics, being of mixed race, Muslim and staunch Nazi supporters.  I don't think there is a "pigeon holing" problem in that case. 

Look at some of the organizations that were fighting in Southeastern Europe (the Balkans, Greece and Turkey) and the Middle East, and I am sure you will find those characteristics.

 

[vonGarvin]

 

[The Bread Guy]

Good catch!  "I'll take Balkan fez-wearing Nazi foreign legion units for $400, Alex."  ;D