2nd Monday afternoon update:
HOUSTON (AP) – Houston police say the gunman in the shootings had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition and was shooting randomly.
Homicide Capt. Dwayne Ready said the gunman was wearing military-style apparel, found some old Nazi emblems in his personal effects at the scene as well as vintage military items dating to the Civil War in his apartment.
Authorities said the man had two legal guns, a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun and a tommy gun, as well more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition at the scene.
Ready and Interim Police Chief Martha Montalvo did not identify the man and did not have information about a motive.
Texas motor vehicle records in a commercially available database show that the Porsche police were searching at the scene is registered to Nathan DeSai, who lives at the condo complex nearby.
Nine people were hurt, six of them were shot. Mayor Pro Tem Ellen Cohen says the mayor spoke with the families of people in critical and serious condition, who were told that the wounded will survive.
1st Monday afternoon update:
HOUSTON (AP) – Police are searching the condo of the Houston shooting suspect, who was shot and killed after injuring nine people.
Jason Delgado, the property manager of The Oaks at West University condo complex, confirmed that police are going through the residence belonging to the suspect, who has not been identified by authorities other than as a lawyer.
Delgado said that the suspect twice recently became upset about things at the complex.
Delgado said last week the man became upset because of water pressure problems at his home, asked for maintenance help and expressed his displeasure in an email to the management firm that implied he’d “intimidate his way to getting what he was asking for.”
And in August, police were called after roofers working in the complex said he pointed an assault-style rifle at them. He says there wasn’t enough evidence to move forward with charges because the suspect contended he didn’t point the gun at roofers.
Original story:
HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a Houston strip mall (all times local):
8:50 a.m.
Houston police say the suspect is dead in a shooting near a strip mall that wounded six people.
Police said on Twitter that the suspected shooter was “DOA,” describing the shooting scene as still active but contained.
Fire Department Assistant Chief Richard Mann says six people were injured in the shooting early Monday.
The shooting comes days after a shooting at a Washington state mall that left five people dead. On Sept. 17, a 20-year-old man stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall before being shot to death by an off-duty police officer.
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8:05 a.m.
Houston police say several people have been shot at a strip mall in the city’s southwest and that officers shot the gunman.
Police said via Twitter Monday that an “active shooter at Weslayan & Bissonnet has been shot by our officers” and that there are no reports of other suspects “at this time.”
Police say several people have been taken to the hospital but that they cannot provide details about how many were shot or the severity of their injuries.
The Associated Press has left messages seeking comment from the police.
The shooting comes days after a shooting at a Washington state mall that left five people dead. On Sept. 17, a 20-year-old man stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall before being shot to death by an off-duty police officer.