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Spring shooting: six killed in suburban Houston including four children | Spring shooting: six killed in suburban Houston including four children |
(about 2 hours later) | |
Four | Four |
children and two adults have died after a shooting incident at a house | children and two adults have died after a shooting incident at a house |
in the Houston suburb of Spring that was followed by a car chase and police stand-off that ended with a suspect surrendering on a nearby road. | |
Live footage from ABC local news showed a man emerge from a car | Live footage from ABC local news showed a man emerge from a car |
at about 10pm local time with his hands in the air. He walked for a few | at about 10pm local time with his hands in the air. He walked for a few |
yards, then after a few seconds he lay down on the ground and was | |
apprehended by armed police. | apprehended by armed police. |
A | A |
statement from the Harris county sheriff’s office in Texas said two adults and three children were found dead by police at | statement from the Harris county sheriff’s office in Texas said two adults and three children were found dead by police at |
the scene. Two children were transported by air to hospital, where one died. The other, a 15-year-old, was in critical | |
condition late on Wednesday, authorities said. | |
The | The |
shootings took place about 20 miles north of downtown Houston at a | shootings took place about 20 miles north of downtown Houston at a |
four-bedroom home in a quiet, middle-class residential neighbourhood | four-bedroom home in a quiet, middle-class residential neighbourhood |
near the town of Spring. | near the town of Spring. |
During the standoff local | During the standoff local |
news images taken from a helicopter showed numerous police cars | news images taken from a helicopter showed numerous police cars |
blocking the closed end of a cul-de-sac a couple of miles from the scene | blocking the closed end of a cul-de-sac a couple of miles from the scene |
of the shooting, where the driver of a silver car had been cornered. | of the shooting, where the driver of a silver car had been cornered. |
The sheriff’s office said members of its Swat team and hostage specialists were sent to negotiate the surrender of an armed suspect. | The sheriff’s office said members of its Swat team and hostage specialists were sent to negotiate the surrender of an armed suspect. |
Mark | Mark |
Herman, a local police officer, told the Houston Chronicle that | Herman, a local police officer, told the Houston Chronicle that |
authorities responding at around 6pm local time found the first victims and were told that a | authorities responding at around 6pm local time found the first victims and were told that a |
domestic dispute had prompted the incident. | domestic dispute had prompted the incident. |
The | |
teenager identified the suspected shooter and told police he was | |
heading to another location to find more relatives. Officers rushed there and intercepted him and a chase began. | |
"It appears this stems from a domestic issue with | |
a breakup in the family from what our witness has told us," Herman told reporters. | |
Ron | |
Hickman, the precinct constable, told reporters that the suspect had | |
held a gun to his own head during the more than three-hour standoff. Another | |
officer, Deputy Thomas Gilliland, said those killed were two boys aged four and 14, two girls aged seven and nine, a 39-year-old | |
man and a 33-year-old woman. | |
The gunman and his wife were | |
estranged and she did not live in Texas, Gilland said. All of the children were | |
theirs and two among the dead were adopted, he said. | |
It | |
is the second mass shooting in the Houston area since the early hours | |
of last Saturday, when four people were hit when a shooter fired into a crowd during a party at the Houston Caribbean Festival. Two other people were injured | |
in the ensuing panic. | |
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report. |