It had begun with a normal traffic control: In the US state of Texas, a man opened the fire when police wanted to stop him on a highway between the cities of Odessa and Midland. At first, five casualties had been reported. Meanwhile, the number of victims has increased to seven. The report about the US broadcaster Fox News and the news agency AP.
The white man, who was in his mid-30s, was shot dead in the parking lot of a large cinema in Odessa, Texas, local police said on Saturday night (local time) at a press conference.
Renewed debate over US weapons law
Only four weeks after the firearm raids of El Paso and Dayton with dozens dead, the incident in Texas rekindled the debate over US weapons law. Ex-vice-president Joe Biden, who applies to the Democratic candidates for the presidential candidacy, condemned the continuing armed force. "This epidemic" must be ended.
US President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that Justice Secretary William Barr had informed him of the incident. The Federal Police FBI deal with the case.
In a suspected racially motivated attack in El Paso, Texas on the Mexican border, a 21-year-old white man shot and killed 22 people on 3 August. Shortly thereafter, a 24-year-old killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, before being shot dead by the police.