HOUSTON, May 30 (UPI) -- Houston police Monday continued their investigation into a shootout that left two dead -- the gunman and a victim -- and injured six others, including two police officers.
The unidentified shooter, carrying an AR-15 assault rifle and a pistol, opened fire randomly Sunday morning at a tire and auto detailing store in the upscale Wilchester section of west Houston, killing a customer and injuring two others. One of the injured also carried a weapon and was first thought to be another shooter.
Police arrived and the suspect was fatally shot by a SWAT officer, the only shot fired by a law enforcement officer in the incident, police said.
After the neighborhood was put on lockdown, five arriving police cars were fired upon, one receiving 21 bullet holes, and a police helicopter hovering overhead received five bullet holes. A stray bullet is believed to have caused a fire at a gas station adjacent to the store, interim Police Chief Martha Montalvo said.
The man originally thought to be a second gunman was hospitalized and was being interviewed by police.
The victim of the primary shooter was a regular customer at the store and was shot as he sat in his car; police identified him only as a man in his 50s, and said he arrived moments before he was shot. Two police officers were injured and were released from a hospital after treatment. Three people, two men and a woman, sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
No one involved in the incident has been identified by police, nor has a motive been established.
Police later went door-to-door in the neighborhood, interviewing witnesses and assuring residents' safety, Montalvo said. Parishioners at a church, several blocks away, sheltered in place during Sunday services and moved children to safety from a nursery.