Three people were killed in a shooting in the US state of Texas on Thursday night at an apartment complex, a news report said.
US authorities in Arlington said a shooting was reported around 8:30 p.m., KTVT-TV reported. Officers who responded to a home on Chatham Green Lane found three victims who had died of gunshot wounds, KTVT reported.
Police did not immediately identify the victims. Arlington is located about 24 kilometers east of Forth Worth and about 32 kilometers west of Dallas.
This incident comes a week after the US Justice Department concluded that police failed in their response to the 2022 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 children and two teachers.
The report faulted law enforcement officers for waiting more than an hour to breach the classroom where the 18-year-old gunman was holed up with 33 students and three teachers.
The shooting in a rural part of southwestern Texas, carried out by a former student, was one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Nineteen students, ranging from ages 9 to 11, were killed along with two teachers.
Last year, there were more than 630 mass shootings across the US, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are killed or injured. These figures include shootings that happen in homes and public places.
(With agency inputs)
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