Authorities identify man killed in Houston shooting
Eight people were shot, including the gunman.
The suspect, identified as 25-year-old Dionisio Agustine Garza III, fired off 212 rounds, injuring several people and killing one before he was shot and killed by SWAT officers. And he left to come here to hang out with some friends and to try to find some work.. She says she last saw Garza at her home last week in California.
Two deputies injured in the shooting were treated and released, police said.
Two persons were killed, including the suspect, and six others were injured in the Sunday’s shooting. VIDEO: Eyewitness speaks about Sunday’s mass shootingInvestigators say around 10:15am, the suspect walked up and started shooting. “He was coming out to help”. He didnt think very wisely, made a bad choice and got himself into a bad situation.. One was killed; the other was wounded and taken to a hospital.
Police say the first officer who pulled up to the scene was immediately shot at, leaving 21 bullet holes in his windshield. “Ever. I’ve seen him talk people down from PTSD moments I’m sure more than I could even count”, he said.
The Harris County Medical Examiner on Monday identified the other man killed as Eugene Linscomb, a customer at the auto shop. With three corners in front of him it meant no one could attack him from behind. He was backed up against a fence so he didn’t have to worry about anybody coming from behind him.
His father told Click 2 Houston: ‘We have not received confirmation, but I strongly suspect. “We just always did things together, we tried to do family vacations together every year, all together”, Michelle Garza said. McGalin said officers initially thought Wilson was a secondary shooter, but further investigation revealed he was not connected to the suspect.
“It doesn’t appear to be a terrorism link to this or anything like that”, he said. While they didn’t appear to be terror related, they seemed to be the writing of a person in a “mental health crisis”. He was interviewed at the hospital to give police his version of what happened, Cannon said. “But that’s not who he was”, she said.
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. “They were actually able to shoot at a helicopter”, Montalvo said.
‘I think he was haunted by everything he experienced there. “He was in the Airborne Infantry, I don’t think he ever came back the same”.
“He was rambling off about the economy collapsing, you know”.
Monday morning, authorities located a bag they believe belonged to Garza, according to Houston television station, ABC13.