UPDATE: Active shooter situation in west Houston

[TexasBushwhacker]

Last edited Sun May 29, 2016, 01:48 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: KHOU (CBS affiliate)

"HOUSTON - ​An active shooter situation has been reported at Memorial drive and Wilcrest drive in west Houston.
We're told multiple shots have been fired."



Read more: http://www.khou.com/mb/news/local/active-shooter-situation-reported-in-west-houston/220585167

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This is happening in the Memorial & Wilcrest area, east of Beltway 8. Shooter is said to be shirtless, wearing black shorts and armed with a rifle. There may be 2 shooters.

UPDATE: 2 suspects, one dead, one wounded plus one civilian killed. There is also black smoke coming from a building in the area. It's not yet known if it's related to the shooting incident.

[LS_Editor]

1. USA, USA, USA!

[Loki]

2. Stay safe Houston,

I have friends who still live there.

[underthematrix]

3. Welcome to OPEN CARRY Texas

[Major Nikon]

4. Obviously we just need more gun nuts to keep us safe from the gun nuts

[underthematrix]

5. Everyone should tweet

@GOPconvention and encourage them to go OPEN CARRY

[ManiacJoe]

20. The vast majority of the USA allows open carry.

What does that have to do with this story?

[stone space]

29. I wonder if anybody saw him with his AR-15 before he started shooting.

And if somebody did see him with his gun, did they call 911?

Or did they just pass it pass it off as Texas Normal?

[stone space]

28. An OPEN CARRY TEXAS / OPEN CARRY TARRANT COUNTY activist has already murdered two people.

Welcome to OPEN CARRY Texas

[Shadowflash]

6. It's Texas

shouldn't a 'good guy' with a gun put a stop to it?

[beevul]

12. Presumably...

Presumably, good guys with guns did put a stop to it.

You do realize that when there is a bad guy shooting people, the default response in every last locale in America (not just Texas), is to send good guys with guns to stop it, right?

[Shadowflash]

14. Right.

Sigh. Yes the cops are the good guys.

If you think that's who the NRA is referring to when they make their little bumper sticker screed, I really don't know how to carry on this conversation. I'm sorry. I'm out.

[beevul]

21. *shrug*

If you think that's who the NRA is referring to when they make their little bumper sticker screed, I really don't know how to carry on this conversation. I'm sorry. I'm out.

I don't think it matters who the nra was referring to, except to people who see the only 'good guy with a gun' as cops.

[C Moon]

8. Three shooters?

http://abc13.com/news/active-shooter-firing-weapon-in-west-houston/1361533/

It was on Memorial Drive, can't help but wonder if that's not a coincidence.

[kentauros]

17. I would say that it -is- a coincidence.

Memorial Drive is a major thoroughfare through Houston, starting in the downtown area as a kind of parkway and turning into a four-lane divided boulevard snaking its way through many neighborhoods, most of which are where many of Houston's most affluent families live.

Memorial Drive (Wikipedia) - map at link

[C Moon]

22. Thx!

[kentauros]

25. You're welcome

[Sunlei]

9. My friends live there, as of this post time their neighborhood is still on lockdown as police search

door to door for a possible third man.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Situation now over

Streets will be reopened shortly.

[Sunlei]

11. update from my friends. 8 hit by gunfire, 2 were the shooters. one had a AR-15? & carried a bucket o

of ammo. Sounds like more then simple robberies 'gone bad'.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. And the fire was a vacant gas station that

the shooters torched. I wonder what was up with that.

[LiberalElite]

15. Guns are for shooting

[Eugene]

16. Gunman dead after 'random' rifle rampage in Houston suburb

Source: The Guardian

Gunman dead after 'random' rifle rampage in Houston suburb

• Swat team kill one suspect while another man is left critically injured
• Civilian fatally shot in car and three others injured

Tom Dart in Houston
Monday 30 May 2016 00.48 BST

At least one man armed with a high-powered rifle went on a shooting rampage through a suburban Houston neighbourhood on Sunday, police said, resulting in two deaths and multiple injuries.

Violence erupted at about 10.15am at an auto repair shop, police said. The incident was not declared over for more than two hours as police combed the area, searching for the suspect or suspects, who appeared to be shooting at officers and random civilians, and even a helicopter.

One suspect was killed by a Swat team member. Another man, potentially a suspect, was shot and taken to hospital but is expected to live, police said.

Police spokesman John Cannon said that the dead man is believed to be a customer in his fifties. “The suspect just came out unprovoked and fatally shot him for no apparent reason,” he said. Cannon said that the main suspect was armed with a pistol, which he used to kill the man in the vehicle, and the rifle that he used to shoot at police.

The spokesman said the active shooter incident lasted about an hour but police continued to search the area in response to unfounded reports of a third gunman.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/29/houston-shooting-two-dead-gunman-texas

[olddad56]

18. Thsi is LBN? it is an veryday occurance in Texas.

[argyl]

23. These incidents happen all over the country, not just in Texas. And certainly not every day.

[Paladin]

24. Stupid comment, redolent of regional prejudice. (nt)

[kentauros]

26. It is?

Well, that's news to this native Houstonian. Maybe you're confusing us with Chicago?


Pleading for Peace in Chicago: ‘We Could Be Looking at a Blood Bath’

42 people shot, 4 of them fatally, in shootings across Chicago since Friday - police

[ManiacJoe]

19. Updated link from KHOU

http://www.khou.com/news/crime/active-shooter-situation-reported-in-west-houston/220585167

[MariaThinks]

27. If Texas had more guns, this would not be happening

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Shooter had PTSD, was pro-Trump, and anti: government, Jews, gays and Walmart

and thought the economy and the world were about to end. And thought the man he killed was the devil:

(NEWSER) – The gunman behind Sunday's deadly rampage in Houston has been identified as Afghanistan veteran Dionisio Garza III by ABC13, which found a bag containing bullets and his personal papers at the scene. The bag, which held the 25-year-old's birth certificate and military discharge record, was turned over to police. According to the military record, Garza was a sergeant who received several awards for his service in Afghanistan. Garza's father tells KPRC that while there has been no official confirmation yet that his son was the man killed in a shootout with police, his son had exhibited some troubling behavior recently and he believes "it is a PTSD thing." More:

Garza's father says his son believed the US was on the brink of collapsing and had recently moved from California to Texas to meet people who shared his anti-government beliefs. "He was trying to get us all to go over there and, you know, go live in a compound," the father says.
...
Paris Nichols tells the Houston Chronicle that when Garza shot Linscomb in the head at the car wash he owns, he thought he would be next, and that his wife—who had been talking to Linscomb—fell to the ground reciting the Lord's Prayer. He says Garza said Linscomb was the devil and told him, "I'm not going to kill y'all, y'all are Christians." Nichols says Garza then went to his car to grab an AR-15 assault rifle, declaring that the world was coming to an end and shouting about Jews, gays, and Walmart.
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Garza's father says he last spoke to him on Saturday, the day before the shooting. "He was rambling off about the economy collapsing, you know," he says. "And that something was going to happen by Monday, that kind of stuff. Of course you look back now and there were signs."

KPRC has identified a Twitter account believed to be Garza's. In it, he praises Donald Trump, insults Paul Ryan and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, and talks about the dollar collapsing.

http://www.newser.com/story/225904/dad-houston-gunman-may-have-had-ptsd.html

[TexasBushwhacker]

31. So sad that our vets don't get the mental health care they need n/t