A Texas gunman opened fire on a train, leaving one passenger dead and two more injured.
An altercation between passengers on the Green Line of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) train resulted in the fatal gunshot.
The shooting happened on Sunday at around 4.30 p.m., according to DART Police. When the shots were fired, the train was close to Hatcher Station in Dallas.
Two people were immediately transported to a local hospital for treatment. One victim, the shooter’s target, died at the hospital.
The other two victims were identified as bystanders. One was treated and released at the scene, while the other was hospitalized in unknown condition.
The shooter then fled the scene and remains at large.
DART closed the station and rerouted passengers for hours after the shooting took place.
‘Green Line passengers should expect delays and will need to board a Bus shuttle between MLK and Lawnview stations due to police activity in the area,’ the agency said on Twitter. ‘Our apologies for the inconvenience.’
The station was reopened the same night after the investigation ended around 8.30pm.
The shooting culminated a weekend of gun violence in the Texas city home to 1.3million people. The incident took place just under 24 hours after a gunman killed eight people and injured seven at a Dallas-area outlet mall.
The shooter, later identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, opened fire with an AR-15 style rifle into the crowd at the Allen Premium Outlets, located about 30 miles north of downtown Dallas.
Garcia was killed at the scene. Investigators are currently probing his connections to neo-Nazi groups and white supremacist ideology due to a patch he was seen wearing on his chest.
There have been a total of 202 mass shootings in the United States in 2023, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive.