Officers responded to reviews of a taking pictures at Octavia’s Occasion Heart within the 2300 block of Texas Boulevard shortly earlier than midnight and “encountered numerous individuals operating from the constructing and several other inside affected by gunshot wounds,” the Texarkana Police Division mentioned in an announcement on Facebook. Texarkana is about 180 miles east of Dallas.
On the time of the taking pictures, a couple of hundred individuals had been contained in the venue, police mentioned.
Victims had been taken to Wadley Regional Medical Heart and Christus St. Michael Hospital, police mentioned.
One 20-year-old man died shortly after being admitted to the hospital, police mentioned within the assertion. His title is being withheld till household may be notified.
The opposite 9 victims’ accidents don’t look like life threatening, police mentioned.
The suspect is believed to have fled the scene in an unknown car.
“Whereas the motive continues to be unknown, the preliminary investigation signifies that it might (have) been the results of some sort of disturbance amongst some the partygoers,” police mentioned.
