A gunman hijacked a US postal truck and opened fire at random in the US state of Texas Saturday, shooting dead at least five people and wounding many others before dying in a shootout with officers...
Police tape marks the scene outside a Twin Peaks restaurant after multiple people were shot in Odessa, Texas. Photo: AFP
Coming less than a month after a gunman killed 22 people in the Texas city of El Paso, the latest bloodshed immediately ignited fresh calls for gun control to stem the US scourge of mass shootings. Some of the shots were fired on the highway linking the cities of Odessa and Midland, where cars were left with bullet holes.
During his rampage, the suspect had switched vehicles by hijacking the postal van, and Gerke said he “would assume” the postal worker was among the victims. The latest incident came after the early August mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, where many victims were Hispanic. “We need to end this epidemic,” former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke reacted on Twitter after the latest killings.
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