The Police have confirmed that at least seven people were killed in Texas shooting rampage, and the ages of those killed are between 15 to 57.
According to the report by Associated press, Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said at a news conference Sunday that authorities have no definitive answers yet about a motive in Saturday’s Texas shooting.
AP reported that the Texas shooting started when a Police troopers pulled over a driver for failing to signal a left turn.
Police say the driver went on a more than 10-mile shooting rampage, hijacking a mail carrier truck and firing at random as he drove in the area of Odessa and Midland. He shot more than 20 people before being killed by officers outside a movie theater.
Dr. Nathaniel Ott says he heard shots around 3 p.m. Saturday while at work in Odessa. He rushed outside to find a woman in the driver’s seat of an SUV bleeding from a gunshot wound in the arm. Ott says a paramedic put a tourniquet on the woman’s arm and he ran back inside to get a bag of fluids and an IV.
They then loaded the woman into a police cruiser to be driven to a nearby trauma center. He doesn’t know how she’s doing now.
Ott says that as they were working, the shooter drove back by the intersection, followed by police. He says the gunman drove within 30 feet of him. He says of the shooter: “He was just everywhere.”
President Donald Trump is praising law enforcement in West Texas.
Trump on Sunday called the shooting rampage “A very tough and sad situation!” in a tweet. It came just weeks after another Texas mass shooting at Walmart in El Paso that left 22 people dead.
The Texas shootings have reignited a debate in the U.S. over gun control. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania told ABC’s “This Week” that Trump is “very interested in doing something meaningful” but said he couldn’t guarantee an outcome.
Democratic presidential contenders are intensifying their criticism of Trump and Republicans.
Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke condemned expressions of “thoughts and prayers” as insufficient following Saturday’s shooting in his home state, AP had reported on SSunday.But the identity of the shooter who is already dead is yet to be revealed as at the time of this report.