A Texas gunman fatally shot three people in a violent rampage spanning several cities before turning the gun on himself, according to authorities.
Cops responded to a shooting in Sugar Land — 19 miles southwest of downtown Houston — around 1 p.m. Wednesday and discovered a woman with several gunshot wounds behind the wheel of a white SUV that had veered off the road, the Sugar Land Police Department said in a statement.
Though the incident was initially thought to have been sparked by road rage, cops later confirmed that the woman and the gunman had a relationship with each other, police said.
“This incident was not a random act of road rage violence,” the department wrote.
Two witnesses helped authorities perform life-saving measures on the victim before she was brought to a local hospital and pronounced dead, cops said.
Then, at around 1:30 p.m., the unidentified suspect in a gray Ford Escape was spotted in an altercation with a worker at a mechanic shop in southwest Houston, only 10 minutes from where he had fatally gunned down the woman, Houston Police Lt. Larry Crowson told reporters.
The alleged killer fired several shots at the worker and another man who was filming the incident at a nearby warehouse as he drove away, Crowson said.
Both men were shot and killed, cops said.
The man recording the gunman had owned the body shop. He was 35 years old, family members told KHOU 11.
The suspect then drove two and a half miles away and was discovered dead inside his vehicle from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
It is not yet clear if the gunman had any relationship with the other two individuals shot.
Additional details about the gunman and a possible motive were not available as of Wednesday evening.
The incident remains under investigation.
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