A crazed Texan is accused of fatally shooting three people at a home in Mabank on Friday before crashing his minivan into a Buc-ee’s in Ennis, about 35 miles away, and shooting himself.
Two more victims were shot and hospitalized, and a pedestrian was pinned against a sales display at the Buc-ee’s when Christopher Kyle Reid Jr., 29, drove into the entrance, WFAA reported.
After his 2003 Dodge Caravan came to a stop, Reid shot himself in the head. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Henderson County deputies said that they were called to a subdivision in Mabank just before 2:30 a.m. on Friday and found multiple people with gunshot wounds. A man and a woman were pronounced dead at the scene, and a third victim died at UT Health Hospital in Tyler.
the sheriff’s office identified the victims as Kimberly Simpson, 51; Connie Patrick, 72; and Rodney Hammonds, 57. Hammonds had also been stabbed and sustained blunt force trauma.
Colton Reid, 24, and Henry Hopgood, 70, were also shot and hospitalized in Tyler, Reid in stable condition and Hopgood in critical condition.
The pedestrian who was injured at the Buc-ee’s was an Oklahoma woman in her 30s. She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A neighbor told WFFA that one of the shooting victims pounded on her door for help, saying “his brother shot him.”
Police have not released information about a motive for the attack or said what charges Reid will face if he survives.
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[Featured image: Christopher Kyle Reid Jr/Henderson County Sheriff’s Office]
