HOUSTON (AP) — A person evicted from a Houston condominium building shot five other tenants — killing three of them — Sunday morning right after setting hearth to the home to lure them out, law enforcement said. Officers fatally shot the gunman.

The incident transpired at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-household community in southwest Houston. Police and fireplace crews responded to the apartment house just after stories of the hearth, law enforcement Chief Troy Finner said.

The gunman opened hearth, perhaps with a shotgun, on the other tenants as they emerged from the dwelling, Finner mentioned. Two have been dead at the scene, and 1 died at a healthcare facility. Fire teams rescued two other wounded adult men, who were being hospitalized with non-everyday living-threatening wounds, he claimed.

The guy then opened hearth as the firefighters battled the hearth, forcing them to take address right up until police officers noticed the vulnerable gunman and shot him lifeless, Finner mentioned.

No identities have been produced, and Finner claimed no firefighters or officers had been wounded.

“I’ve found matters I have not observed just before in 32 yrs, and it has happened time and time once again,” Finner reported. “We just request that the local community come with each other.”

A neighbor, Robin Ahrens, explained to the Houston Chronicle that he listened to what he originally imagined were fireworks as he well prepared for operate.

“I’m just lucky that I didn’t go outdoors mainly because he most likely would have shot me way too,” he told the newspaper.

He claimed the shooter, who experienced colon cancer, was at the rear of on his rent, jobless and was just lately notified that he was getting evicted.

“Something should have just hit him in the final pair of times definitely challenging to wherever he just did not care,” he explained. “And that is why he did what he did. … Nothing else you can really do when you are at that issue.”

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