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One Dead, At Least Five Injured In Texas Shooting

  One person was killed and at least five wounded in a shooting at a business in Texas Thursday, just hours after US President Joe … Continue reading One Dead, At Least Five Injured In Texas Shooting


A Bryan police officer blocks road access near the scene of a mass shooting at an industrial park in Bryan in Bryan, Texas on April 8, 2021. One person was dead and several in critical condition following a shooting at a business in Texas Thursday, just hours after US President Joe Biden called gun violence an “epidemic” and unveiled plans to tackle the crisis. The suspect was “in custody,” according to the police department in the east Texas town of Bryan where the attack took place. Officials said the individual shot and wounded one officer following the incident and was an employee of the cabinetry manufacturer where he carried out the shooting. Sam Craft / AFP
A Bryan police officer blocks road access near the scene of a mass shooting at an industrial park in Bryan in Bryan, Texas on April 8, 2021.  Sam Craft / AFP

 

One person was killed and at least five wounded in a shooting at a business in Texas Thursday, just hours after US President Joe Biden called gun violence an “epidemic” and unveiled plans to tackle the crisis.

Larry Bollin, 27, was named as the main suspect in the shooting and charged with murder, according to a tweet by the police department in the east Texas town of Bryan where the attack took place.

Several of those wounded are in a critical condition and officials said the suspect had shot and injured one officer.

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Bollin was an employee of the cabinetry manufacturer where the shooting took place, Police Chief Eric Buske said.

A Bryan police officer blocks access to an industrial park near the scene of a mass shooting in Bryan, Texas on April 8, 2021. Sam Craft / AFP

 

Officers received a call “at approximately 2:30 this afternoon” about the attack at Kent Moore Cabinets, Buske added.

“One person was deceased at the scene,” he told reporters, and four additional victims were transported to the hospital “in critical condition with gunshot injuries.”

The Bryan Police Department confirmed a total of seven victims, which also included one person with a minor injury and another with a separate medical issue “related to the incident.”

A Bryan Police Department officer maintains a perimeter near the scene of a shooting at Kent Moore Cabinets on April 8, 2021 in Bryan, Texas.  Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images/AFP

 

The Texas Department of Public Safety reported that a state trooper “was shot while pursuing an individual suspected of being involved in the shooting in Bryan. He remains in serious but stable condition.”

It was not immediately clear if the officer was among the Bryan Police Department’s tally.

“As you can imagine it’s very complex because you have a whole number of workers at the warehouse, and so we’re sorting through all that and interviewing witnesses and talking to people to know what happened,” Buske told reporters.

Texas Department of Public Safety patrol vehicles line the outside of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan, Texas in support of an injured trooper after a mass shooting on April 8, 2021. Sam Craft / AFP

 

 

The incident follows recent mass shootings in Colorado, Georgia and California.

Nearly 40,000 people in the United States die each year from guns, more than half of those being suicides.

The issue of gun regulation in the United States is politically fraught.

Bryan police officers work the scene of a mass shooting at Kent Moore Cabinets in Bryan, Texas on on April 8, 2021. Sam Craft / AFP

 

Biden on Thursday announced six executive measures which he said would help stem the gun violence crisis, but Republicans immediately attacked the proposal, with the party’s senior leader in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, warning of “unconstitutional overreach.”

AFP