Hmmm, people are shooting it up in Odessa / Midland right now

[Miker12]

Active shooter driving in stolen US mail truck kills at least one and injures at least 30 on a rampage in the Texas cities of Midland and Odessa

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7415079/Multiple-injuries-reported-active-shooter-incident-Odessa-Texas.html

more to come

 

[Steve_In_29]

There are two shooters in different vehicles.

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

There is one shooter and he is dead.

 

[Miker12]

Summary:

(As of 8pm ET) Reportedly around 3:17pm central time, suspect was stopped in Midland by state police for traffic violation, suspect shot officer, fled, shooting multiple people, then later stole US Postal vehicle, headed towards Odessa, randomly shooting, with majority of shots occurring near Odessa Home Depot. Suspect was confronted, then shot and killed by police near Cinergy Odessa theater. Police have confirmed 5 dead and 20+ injured, including 3 officers -- one state trooper, one Midland officer and one Odessa officer.

MSM is praying the shooter is a white male

Meanwhile, let's see how fast the MSM will blame the left's anti-police rhetoric for this incident. I won't hold my breath.

 

[smithers599]

Please please please let him have bought gun legally with background check and not at gun show. He is white male but please please please let him be Biden supporter.

 

[Steve_In_29]

There is one shooter and he is dead.

Reporting was initially of two shooters since the fact he switched vehicles wasn't caught at the time.

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

There is one shooter and he is dead.

Reporting was initially of two shooters since the fact he switched vehicles wasn't caught at the time.

I heard that also.
Right after you posted they came out and said it was only one shooter.
I should have worded it better. I wasn't trying to prove you wrong.

 

[Steve_In_29]

I heard that also.
Right after you posted they came out and said it was only one shooter.
I should have worded it better. I wasn't trying to prove you wrong.

That's alright, as I was wrong.

 

[cool arrow]

any updates? I just got home and am not seeing this on the news right now.

 

[Crippledtrigger]

This wasn't a pre planned attack. It will fade away quickly. Started as a traffic stop.

 

[smithers599]

This wasn't a pre planned attack. It will fade away quickly. Started as a traffic stop.

I fear it will be characterized as "the last straw" illustrating the urgent need for red flag laws, universal background checks, and magazine capacity limits. If he used anything that could remotely be characterized as an "assault weapon," then those too.

 

[Miker12]

This wasn't a pre planned attack. It will fade away quickly. Started as a traffic stop.

So three questions since I have been following this REALLY close (kept prints of all news stories from the day even overseas):

1) why did the man who was pulled over have enough ammo to shoot that much? I mean, when I am coming back from the range I still have a few hundred rounds so that is a possibility.

2) the news specifically stated that a suspect was arrested at the movie theater. Videos and photos show proof of that.

3) the main shooter was killed during arrest but why was he being pulled over in the first place? Red Flag type report? No name is being released until the FB and other pages can be scrubbed and rearranged to match the narrative.

 

[Crippledtrigger]

This was 4 hours from me so my info is what I hear from people who are in the area. The area is really a modern version of a boom town. Midland and Odessa are 15 miles apart but really considered one area.

I thought this was traffic stop went bad. Since I posted that a few details make me think there was possibly more to it and more arrests to come. As of now that's my thinking


The shooter was known to police. An anti social anti government or sovereign citizen type are all things I've heard. There were 2 troopers in the car that pulled him over for not signaling a turn. Add this together and they were stopping him for a reason other than not signaling a turn. They think he or his group, no explanation of what his group means re what they are or beliefs are, had something planned and were trying to stop him before it started and he figured the jig was up and went for maximum damage on his way out.

As far as amount of ammo and why? A couple mags is enough to do what he did and if he was in the planning stages who knows.

No red flag laws here, yet, but he was a known problem causer and if they got a tip it's not hard to find a reason to stop you. I think this is likely what happened. It also explains the limited info, if they are investigating this group planned attack thing.

A couple other items, the usps and ups recalled all their employees that were in the field. Got that from both a postal employee and ups employee. Ups does some sat deliveries.

Was the usps employee killed and his van taken an opportunity or actually a target? Dont know but think it's odd they recalled all delivery staff.

What ever caused the start it devolved into a spree killer shit fest.

I hope it was just a traffic stop and a loony who cracked. A right wing Extremists anti government terrorists group would be the worst possible scenario.

 

[Suck My Glock]

Latest reporting says when he openned fire on the cops pulling him over, it was with a rifle.

Sooooooooo,...looks like this is going to be an assault rifle thing. Perhaps mixed in with some sort of hate-fueled anti-brown people thing? I got a bad feeling about this one.

 

[Boriqua]

This one is kind of weird. Not in the act itself, that is weird enough, but the coverage. Usually within a couple of hours Heavy.com has a write up on the suspect and there is some updated news. Not to sound like a ghoul but there are almost Zero new details this morning. Many of the stories available were posted 16 hours or so ago. I read a LOT of news.

They are really keeping a lid on this one. No conspiracy theory jazz from me .. just noting it.

Make up of the victims .. nothing. Guess it can be attributed to ongoing investigation if there is a larger group involved but still .. BIG story with no updates.

Then .. funny but the reverse psychology must be working on me because I EXPECT to hear assault weapon or assault rifle accompanying these stories and so far after reading about the shooting in a dozen places .. no mention of Assault something.

Just kind of weird

 

[smithers599]

This wasn't a pre planned attack. It will fade away quickly. Started as a traffic stop.

I fear it will be characterized as "the last straw" illustrating the urgent need for red flag laws, universal background checks, and magazine capacity limits. If he used anything that could remotely be characterized as an "assault weapon," then those too.

A senior law enforcement official briefed on the case and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety said the shooter had a rifle that [highlight=yellow]may have been a .223 AR-15 style weapon.[/highlight]
Officials were also trying to determine whether the suspect had other weapons on him during the shooting or at his home.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called it a "senseless and cowardly attack."
The attack, the second mass shooting in Texas this month,[highlight=yellow] prompted a round of calls for stricter gun laws from some hopefuls running for the Democratic nomination for president.[/highlight]
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., said on Twitter, "America is sick of this. We need to act."
Former Congressman Beto O'Rourke of El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed in an Aug. 3 attack at a Walmart, tweeted, "More information is forthcoming, but here's what we know: We need to end this epidemic."
U.S. Sen Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said on Twitter that the violence makes her "heartsick." "We've already lost far too many to gun violence-Congress must act now," she said.

Here we go again.

 

[cool arrow]

Not to sound like a ghoul but there are almost Zero new details this morning. Many of the stories available were posted 16 hours or so ago. I read a LOT of news.


Just kind of weird

No kidding, when I got home last night after being gone all day, there was nothing on the news about it, which struck me as weird too, which prompted me to ask here on the board.

 

[Miker12]

Here is just one thing that is odd, the shooting (or arrest of someone) at the local theater:



There was an instagram video of the theaters being cleared out and the crowd rushing the parking lot as the police went in.

https://youtu.be/Mlaua3tDGhM?t=13 shows the chase to the theater in a blue pickup.

The last photo is the suspect dead on a street nearby.

 

[Dauph]

I saw that the last picture was the postal worker shot dead when the shooter stole the postal truck.

That is also a neighborhood. Shooter was at a theater when shot

 

[Boriqua]

I thought Beto was finished already but seems he is all over the news talking about mandatory gun buy backs for AK/AR style guns. Thankfully he has no chance of instituting it but ... will it become the new mantra for Dem wannabes.