A man is dead and nine others are injured after a gunman opened fire at a Halloween party in Texarkana, Texas, police said. TEXARKANA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
One person is dead and nine more are wounded after a man opened fire at a packed Halloween party in Texas.
According to the Texarkana Police Department, there were “at least a couple hundred” people at the Saturday, Oct. 30, celebration when shots rang out just before midnight.
Crowds of partygoers were running out of Octavia’s Event Center as police arrived at the scene, the department said in a release shared on Facebook.
The injured were taken to area hospitals for treatment.
One victim, an unidentified 20-year-old man, died from his injuries, police said. The remaining victims are expected to survive.
Police are searching for the suspect, who they say left the scene of the shooting in an “unknown vehicle.”
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Investigators don’t know what led to the shooting but said it “may [have] been the result of some type of disturbance among some [of] the partygoers.”
Anyone with information is encouraged to call Texarkana police at 903-798-3116.
According to a report, a man died and nine other people were wounded in a shooting at a Halloween party in eastern Texas, police said.
Gunfire erupted late Saturday at the Octavia Event Center in Texarkana, the city’s police department said in a news released. Situated around 180 miles east of Dallas, Texarkana is located on Texas’ border with Arkansas.
Police estimated that “at least a couple hundred people” were at the venue when the shots were fired. Officers “encountered a large number of people running from the building and several inside suffering from gunshot wounds,” the release said.
The 10 people who were shot went to two hospitals for treatment; either by ambulance, police unit or private vehicle, police said.
A 20-year-old man “died a short time later” at one of the hospitals, police added. His name was not released. Police said the injuries of the other nine people did not appear to be life-threatening.
The suspected shooter was “described as a black male, who left in an unknown vehicle following the shooting,” police said.
“While the motive is still unknown, the preliminary investigation indicates that it may been the result of some type of disturbance among some the partygoers,” the release added.
