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WASHINGTON, May 7, 2023 (AFP) – A man who went on a rampage at a Texas outlet mall on Saturday shot dead eight people before he was himself killed, authorities said. “(We) found seven deceased individuals on scene. We transported nine individuals to the hospital… Of those we transported, two have since died,” said fire chief Jonathan Boyd of Allen, Texas. The shooting sparked panic at Allen Premium Outlets, a sprawling shopping complex in Allen, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A man accused of massacring five neighbors after they asked him to stop firing his rifle in his yard was captured Tuesday after a days-long manhunt, Texas law enforcement said. Francisco Oropesa had eluded authorities since the shooting Friday in the small town of Cleveland in southeastern Texas. “We now have this man in custody,” San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told reporters at a press conference Tuesday night. “He […]
HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) – Police were searching Saturday for a gunman believed to have shot and killed five Hondurans after they asked him to stop late-night target practice that was keeping their baby awake, the local sheriff said Saturday, in the latest mass shooting to hit the United States. An eight-year-old child was among the victims when the apparently drunken gunman stormed into the crowded house and opened fire, reportedly infuriated by the request to […]
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2023 (AFP) – Police were searching for a gunman believed to have shot dead five Hondurans including an eight-year-old child at a house in Texas, the local sheriff said Saturday, in the latest mass shooting to hit the United States. Investigators believe the gunman had been firing his AR-15 style gun in a neighboring yard when the victims asked him to stop, as they were trying to get a baby to sleep, […]
Washington, United States | AFP | Two cheerleaders were shot in a Texas parking lot after one mistakenly tried to enter the wrong car, part of a spate of similar incidents this week in the United States. The gunman fired multiple shots at the young women, seriously wounding one, police reported. The shooting early Tuesday came days after a Black teenager was shot in Missouri after ringing the wrong doorbell, and a young woman was […]
Houston, United States | AFP | Attorneys for a death row inmate who gouged out his own eyes after murdering his wife, son and stepdaughter in Texas asked authorities on Wednesday for clemency because he is mentally ill. Andre Thomas, 39, was convicted of killing his family in 2004. His lawyer Maurie Levin told a press conference he was “one of the most mentally ill prisoners in Texas history.” “If ever there was a case […]
Washington, United States (AFP) A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck an oil-producing region of west Texas on Friday, rattling structures but causing no apparent damage, US authorities said. Preliminary data from the USGS reports the earthquake was a magnitude 5.3 centered 12 miles to the NNW of Midland with a depth of 3 miles. This would be the 4th strongest earthquake in Texas state history! #txwx #earthquake — NWS Midland (@NWSMidland) December 16, 2022 The […]
Tornadoes extended into Oklahoma and Arkansas as well as Texas yesterday, and the widespread damage is still being assessed. Field correspondent Brandon Clement documented this devastation in Idabel, OK.#severewx #OKwx #tornado pic.twitter.com/ap3Z6LNw0b — WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) November 5, 2022 Here is a collection of frame grabs if New Boston, Texas #tornado. This tornado lifted debris up above 30,000 feet per radar when between Naples and Boston. NWS damage surveys will be out in force today. Our […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – On Sutton Page’s ravaged cotton fields, there is almost nothing left to pick. The Texas farmer managed to salvage maybe a fifth of his crop, but the rest was lost to the severe drought that has taken a steep toll across the region. This year, his harvest is “not well,” he says, but in reality, the drought in northern Texas has proven to be a disaster, with most of Page’s […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A video of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, published Tuesday showed police waiting for more than an hour before breaching a classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers. Steve McCraw, Texas’s public safety chief, has described the police response to the May 24 attack as an “abject failure” and said officers wasted vital time looking for a classroom key that was “never needed.” Surveillance camera video […]
by Gerard Martinez Agence France-Presse SAN ANTONIO, United States (AFP) — The death toll of undocumented migrants who were abandoned in a scorching-hot trailer in Texas rose to 51 Tuesday, as President Joe Biden blamed “criminal” professional smugglers for the tragedy. Rebeca Clay-Flores, a Bexar County official, reported the new tally of “39 men and 12 women” dead, following the Monday discovery of the tractor-trailer on an isolated road in her district. She did […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — At least 46 migrants were found dead Monday in and around a tractor-trailer that was abandoned on the side of a road in San Antonio, in central Texas, authorities said. The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years — and came five years after a similar deadly incident in the same city, a few hours from the Mexican border. “At […]
