UPDATE: Wednesday 3:00 pm – The identity of the shooter in the Red Roof Inn has been released by the Nueces County Medical Examiner as 27-year-old Christopher Allen Smith, Jr.
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ORIGINAL STORY:
One man is dead this morning after opening fire from inside a hotel on the 6800 block of South Padre Island Drive.
It happened last night around 11:30 p.m. at the Red Roof Inn on South Padre Island Drive.
Corpus Christi Police tell KRIS 6 they received calls about a man shooting a gun from the balcony towards the poolside of the hotel.
When they arrived, the suspect was in the hotel room. CCPD secured the area and evacuated rooms nearby.