At least four people are dead and four more are wounded in two separate but related shootings in Dallas and neighboring DeSoto late Wednesday night.
DeSoto police took the suspected shooter into custody without incident at the second shooting scene. Police say the suspect is male, but did not release further information identifying him.
Police said the suspect being held at DeSoto Jail pending charges and further details will be forthcoming after he is officially charged.
Warren Mitchell with the Dallas Police Department said officers responded to a shooting call in the 7100 block of Long Canyon Trail in Dallas around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. They arrived to find four gunshot victims, two of which were deceased. A third victim from that home was taken to Parkland Hospital and another to Methodist Hospital in Oak Cliff.
Mitchell said the suspect in that shooting then fled to DeSoto and was involved in a second shooting scene.
Cpl. Melissa Franks with the DeSoto Police Department said officers were sent to that second shooting scene around 10:45 p.m. Wednesday. Officers found another four people shot, two of which were deceased, at the shooting scene in the 100 block of Galleria Drive in DeSoto.
No ages or sexes of the victims was released by either department.
Agents from the FBI and ATF were on scene in DeSoto to assist in the investigation, but police did not confirm a specific reason for those teams being on site.
Neighbors said they heard an explosion at the DeSoto scene, but police did not confirm that information.
Dallas and DeSoto police departments are working together on the case.
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