A man was shot and killed by police on Saturday after driving a pickup truck through a store. Killeen Mall At least five people were injured in Texas, USA. According to police, the man was shot during a 19-mile police chase. Texas Department of Public Safety.
The incident occurred around 5 p.m. Central Time when a Texas Highway Patrol trooper attempted to stop the truck for allegedly driving under the influence, said Sergeant Bryan Washko of the Texas Department of Public Safety. The driver fled, leading police on a 19-mile chase from Belton to Killeen.
The pursuit ended when the driver entered the Killeen Mall parking lot and crashed through the glass door of the JCPenney store. According to CNN quoting Wasko, “The suspect drove through the gate and continued through the JCPenney store, attacking multiple people.” The police chased the truck on foot inside the mall and exchanged gunfire with the driver. Kill it.
five people injured
According to CNN, five people were injured in the incident. Four people were sent to the hospital and one person went to the hospital on his own. “There are people out here shopping for their families, their children, their friends, their loved ones, obviously, those are things we don’t like to see and we pray for their recovery,” Washko said of the victims.
The suspect’s identity has not been revealed.
The suspect’s identity has not been released. “We need to find out who he is, where he came from, why he ran away,” Vashko said. “All of these questions need to be answered.”
eyewitness accounts
Witness Nathan Carrasco saw the truck drive through the store’s entrance. “There were people lying on the floor and there was glass everywhere,” Carrasco said, according to CNN, adding that people rushed to help a woman and a little girl who was bleeding. Other witnesses, Ross and Will Parker, heard gunshots near the store and sought shelter. “It’s a mess,” Will Parker said. “I’m grateful to the gentleman, the security guard, who helped us out.”
The day before, there was a car accident in Germany. A car plowed into a Christmas market crowd in Magdeburg, Germany on Friday, killing at least two people, including a child. The city government reported that at least 68 people were injured, 15 of them seriously. The driver, Taleb A., was arrested immediately after the incident.
