Posted on 05/27/2013 3:51:50 PM PDT by LibWhacker
EDEN, Texas – Two people are dead and five injured, including a sheriff, after a gunman in Central Texas opened fire on several vehicles, apparently at random, authorities said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said the gunman is among the dead. His identity was not released Monday, but authorities said he was a 23-year-old North Carolina resident.
DPS said the shootings began about 4:30 a.m. Sunday when the gunman shot a motorist in the Eden area in Concho County, about 40 miles southeast of San Angelo. Over the next 90 minutes, he's suspected of shooting two people who were sitting in a car at a convenience store in McCulloch County and then another motorist back in adjacent Concho County.
Shortly after 6 a.m., a 41-year-old woman, Alicia Torres, was found dead in her car in Eola, just east of San Angelo.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Shooter identity not being released pending notification of next of kin?
authorities said he was a 23-year-old North Carolina resident.
Sounds like suicide by cop, but why do these idiots have to take others with them.
this was on Yahoo news and the writer said the gunman was from North Carolina and then after that she repeated ‘Texas shooter, Texas shooter’ about ten times, once twice in one sentence.
This is why ALL Americans need to be armed. There are a lot of lunatics running around this country these days.
I wouldn’t call the area around San Angelo, central Texas. That is more west Texas.
The guy was from North Carolina - wonder why he came to Texas to kill anyone he saw.
WTF??!
The worlds has gone nuts.
Is there more behind this and the other shootings than what is published? No way! Just thinking outside the box.
There are a lot of hispanics in North Carolina for work, he might have had relatives in texas
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2013/may/27/suspected-gunman-idd-in-sunday-shooting-spree/
SAN ANGELO, Texas — The Department of Public Safety has identified the gunman of a fatal shooting spree on Sunday that ended in Concho County as Esteban J. Smith, who was stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina...
...Officials recovered an assault rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition...
Yes, it happened in my neck of the woods. We get more crime out here in West TX from outsiders coming in to work in the oilfields.
...Law enforcement in Texas shot and killed Smith, a Camp Lejeune Marine, suspected of killing a woman in Concho County. Smith is also linked to a dead body found in a hotel on Western Blvd. in Jacksonville [North Carolina] on Sunday, WNCT-TV reported...
It has been reported that a United States Marine who went on a shooting spree across two Texas counties before being shot and killed in a firefight has been linked to a woman’s body found in a North Carolina motel room.
Authorities have not been able to say why Esteban J Smith aged 23 went on the deadly shooting spree. Smith was based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Marine Linked to Texas Shooting Spree Linked to Body Found in North Carolina
Looks like they called out Gibbs, DiNozzo and McGee.
And they walk among us. :(
“The investigation involves the North Carolina police and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service”
Check the toxicology report when it comes back. I’m betting on some good drugs in his system.
>”Officials recovered an assault rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition”<
The guy had a Select Fire Military Weapon, or did he have something that “looked like” a Select Fire Military Weapon?
Details, details, details. Low Information Lemmings need to know, or not.
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