A man evicted from a Houston apartment building in the US shot five other tenants, killing three of them on Sunday morning after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said.
Officers fatally shot the gunman, reports UNB.
The incident happened in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston, US. Police and fire crews responded to the apartment house after reports of the fire, police Chief Troy Finner said.
According to Finner, “The gunman opened fire, possibly with a shotgun, on the other tenants as they emerged from the house.”
“Two were dead at the scene, and one died at a hospital. Fire teams rescued two other wounded men, who were hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds,” he added.
No identities have been released, and Finner said no firefighters or officers were wounded.
“I’ve seen things I have not seen before in 32 years, and it has happened time and time again,” Finner said. “We just ask that the community come together.”
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