8 dead, gunman killed at Dallas football watch party in Texas
8 people were shot dead on Sunday night when a gunman with multiple
weapons barged into his ex-wife's home and went on a shooting spree.
A Texas football watch party had been underway at the single-family
home off Spring Creek Parkway in Plano, less than 20 minutes from
Dallas, around 8 p.m. when the shooter opened fire inside the party. Two
people were wounded, and 7 were killed before authorities arrived and
shot the gunman dead.
Authorities responded to the home in the 1700 block of West Spring
Creek Parkway, near Custer Road, at 8:04 p.m. after multiple gunshots
was reported. An officer heard shots upon arrival. He entered the home
and confronted the gunman before fatally shooting him.
The two wounded victims were transported to the hospital where one of
them later died. Of the nine shooting victims, only one
survived. According to witnesses, a man arrived at the house where a
group was watching the Dallas Cowboys vs. New York Giants game. He had
an argument with a woman outside before drawing an automatic weapon and
opening fire.
"I seen a man argue with a woman. They were standing outside arguing.
The woman was trying to go back in and as she was going back in the
house you seen the man pull out his gun and starting just releasing. He
just started letting them go. It was an automatic. You could hear it go
off multiple times, you could hear it just ring off," a witness told a
Fox News reporter.
"It sounded like an argument between a woman and a man and it got
really loud…next thing you know all you heard was multiple rounds just
going off," Crystal Sugg, who works nearby, told Fox 4.
Police said at a news conference on Monday they have not identified
all of the victims, but said they were all adult men and women. Debbie
Lane, the mother of the woman who lived in the home, said the gunman was
her former son-in-law who killed her daughter, Meredith Lane. The
mother said the couple recently got divorced after six years of marriage
and the man used to own the home where the shooting happened.
"She was a cook, and a quite fine one, and she loved hosting friends
and families," Lane told WFAA. "This was her first opportunity to do it
after the divorce and he didn’t take it well."
Lane continued: "I really wish we knew who the other victims were. They were all close dear friends. We don’t know".
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