Four Dead, Including Suspect, In Texas Shooting
BASTROP, Texas (CBSNewYork/AP)-- Four people are dead after a shooting at an apartment complex in Bastrop, according to the Bastrop County Sheriff's Office.
The shooting suspect is among the dead, reportedly from a self-inflicted gunshot, CBS Austin affiliate KEYE said.
Bastrop County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Dawn Adams quotes officers at the scene as saying the apartment complex where the shooting took place is now secure. No details were immediately available about the motive for the shooting.
Police initially said there could be as many as five dead, but that was later revised to four when it was determined that the suspected shooter was among the fatalities.
Adams said officers received a call about the attack at 6:13 p.m.
In addition to the four dead, a child was taken from the scene to the hospital with minor injuries.
Residents near the scene said they were restricted from leaving or entering the apartment complex where the shooting happened.
Kenyata Trigg told the Austin American-Statesman that her sister-in-law was in the apartment complex when she heard shots. Trigg said her sister-in-law saw the bodies of a man, a woman and two children, all of whom she knew as neighbors.
Mai Mguyen, who's lived in the apartment complex for five years, said she was working at a shop nearby when she heard four gunshots.
Bastrop is a town of about 7,500 people located 35 miles southeast of Austin.
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