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Halloween Party Shooting in Texas Leaves One Dead, 9 Injured
A shooting at a Halloween party in Texarkana, Texas, left one person dead and nine others injured, according to the Texarkana Police Department.
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Officers responded to reports of a shooting at Octavia’s Event Center in the 2300 block of Texas Boulevard shortly before midnight and “encountered a large number of people running from the building and several inside suffering from gunshot wounds,” according to a Facebook statement from the Texarkana Police Department.
According to CNN, Texarkana is about 180 miles east of Dallas.
According to authorities, a few hundred people were inside the venue at the time of the incident.
According to authorities, victims were transferred to Wadley Regional Medical Center and Christus St. Michael Hospital.
The police say they are not sure of the motive behind the shooting. They said The suspected shooter was a black male, who left in an unknown vehicle following the shooting.