Six people were taken to local hospitals and three were treated on the scene and released, said Martha Montalvo, interim chief at the Houston police department. A gunman shot at the officers who arrived on the scene and police returned fire. At an earlier press conference, the Houston fire department advised residents at the nearby Oaks at West University condominiums to stay indoors. The incident occurred just two days after a gunman opened fire in a Washington state mall, killing five people. A little over a week earlier, an attacker at a mall in St Cloud, Minnesota, stabbed 10 people before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer.

Source: The Guardian September 26, 2016 13:38 UTC