The death toll in Texas has risen to 7
A pickup truck that the gunman fired on during his shooting spree sits on the side of Interstate 20 with bullet holes in the passenger-side window. Photo: Ernest Villanueva/Twitter At least seven people were killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting on Saturday in west Texas that began with a traffic stop in Midland and turned into a horrifying drive-by rampage along the highways and streets of nearby Odessa — where the gunman was finally cornered and killed by police.
Less than a block from the Starbucks, the Music City Mall was evacuated, sending shoppers and staff into a terrified sprint through and from the complex. By the end, seven people were dead and another 22 injured. The victims ranged in age from Hours later, much of the city was a taped-off crime scene — wherever the shooter’s bullets had struck.
The Victims Seven people were killed and another 22 injured, including three law-enforcement officers, according to Odessa police. On Saturday, police originally said that five victims had been killed, but on Sunday the Odessa police department raised the death toll to seven, noting that the dead ranged in age from 15 to 57. They also revised to total of injured from 21 to 22.
Mass Panic and Confusion Struck Two Cities at Once The mobile nature of the rampage over a range of many miles — and the fact that the gunman fired on his victims from two different vehicles — fueled mass confusion and fear in both Midland and Odessa. The sister cities spent hours placed on lockdown while authorities tried to figure out what was happening. In addition, multiple authorities in each announced that there were separate active-shooter events, rather than just one.
Despite the fact that four of the ten worst mass shootings in American history have been committed in Texas, the state was hours away from enacting multiple new laws that would further reduce gun-control measures as the west Texas shooting was playing out. As on Sunday, schools will not be able to ban gun owners from keeping their weapons in their vehicles outside, and landlords and homeowners will no longer be able to ban gun owners from keeping weapons on their property.
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