3 killed after series of Houston-area shootings, authorities say; suspect dead

A suspected gunman fatally shot three people at separate locations in the Houston area before killing himself, authorities said on Oct. 8.

“We have a very tragic incident today, and it’s got several moving parts,” Houston Police Lt. Larry Crowson told reporters at a news conference just hours after the events unfurled.

The series of events began just before 1 p.m. on Oct. 8 when police officers in Sugar Land, Texas, responded to a shooting near Dairy Ashford Road and Highway 90, about 19 miles southwest of downtown Houston. They found a female with several gunshot wounds in the driver’s seat of a white SUV that had gone off the road, Sugar Land police said…

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