Thursday, March 4, 2010

Dallas, TX: Man shoots 2, then kills himself in Duncanville after police chase

12:00 AM CST on Thursday, March 4, 2010

By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News
teiserer@dallasnews.com
A man who shot one woman dead and injured another then killed himself Wednesday afternoon in Duncanville after a police chase.

Names of the shooter and the victims were being withheld until relatives are notified.

"It does appear to be related to domestic violence that started earlier in the day over in Dallas," said Lt. Bill Hedgpeth, a Mesquite police spokesman.

It began about 12:40 p.m. Wednesday at Scyene Road and Rodeo Drive in Mesquite. Witnesses told police that the driver of a maroon Ford Mustang fired more than once at a white Chevy Impala with two women inside. The suspect then fled.

The driver of the car, a 30-year-old Dallas woman, died at a local hospital. The other victim, 31, suffered wounds to her head and hand and was being treated at a hospital.

Meanwhile, authorities alerted Duncanville police that the Mustang was registered to a Duncanville address.

A short time later, Duncanville officers spotted the Mustang and began chasing it as it fled on a U.S. Highway 67 service road, going the wrong way.

The pursuit ended when the man crashed his vehicle into the fence of a Dallas apartment complex in the 4300 block of Gannon Lane. When Duncanville officers approached, they found that the driver had fatally shot himself in the head.

Hedgpeth said police were trying to figure out the relationship between the driver and the two women. The two victims share the same last name, but Hedgpeth said he did not know whether they were related.

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