Two men have died and six are wounded after gunmen unleashed an hours-long random attack on a residential street in Houston, police said.
Gunshots were first heard at 10.15am in west Houston, Texas. When officers arrived, the suspects turned their fire to the police and began showering bullets, seemingly at random, across the streets.
One bullet hit a gas pump, sparking a fire. Dozens of cars were hit by stray bullets, narrowly missing drivers who were passing through the quiet residential area.
At 12.30pm, a civilian was shot dead in his car as a bullet burst through the window.
Minutes later, one of the armed men shot the other suspect dead.
The surviving gunman was then shot and wounded by a SWAT team officer. He was taken to hospital.
During the shooting, two officers were shot – one in the hand and one in his body but survived thanks to his bulletproof vest, according to ABC13. Another three civilians were also shot and wounded.
Both gunmen were armed with assault rifles, believed to be AR-15s, police said.
One motorist showed KHOU how a bullet burst through his passenger window, blew through two seats and out another window – as he sat in the driver’s seat.
Another man spoke to the station through his shattered window, which was grazed by a bullet.
The shooting situation was still active as of 1pm Central Time, the Houston Police Department said in a Facebook post.
Police advised residents to stay away from the area.
The wounded suspect was transported to a nearby hospital.
Earlier police said officers were responding to reports of a male firing shots in an area of west Houston just east of the Sam Houston Tollway, a major highway dissecting the Texas city.
Television news footage showed cars in the area with their windows smashed, apparently from random gunshots.
‘There was a lot of confusion,’ a police spokesman told reporters at a press conference at 1.30pm Central Time.
The spokesman described the shooters as both male, either white or Hispanic.
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