Detroit authorities announced late Sunday that the suspect involved in the arbitrary shooting of four victims, three fatally and one wounded, had been found and arrested.
A man and two women were found shot dead in separate locations in the city in the early hours of the morning, according to Detroit Police Chief James White.
The only survivor described being shot after he spotted the gunman looking for a car and confronted him.
“When he told him to get away from the vehicles, he turned and fired at him, striking him once,” said White, adding that the victim was shot in the arm.
The Detroit Police Chief stressed in a press conference that the gunman is a young black man, wearing a black Carhhartt jacket with a hood, explaining that “evidence suggests a single suspect.”
The US authorities determined that the same gun was used in all four shootings.
White confirmed that “at this time, we believe this to be a random act. There does not appear to be any relation between any of the crimes,” noting that one of the “victims was waiting inside a bus, and another was passing in the street, in addition to a man who was walking his dog.”
Meanwhile, Texas authorities reported that three people were also killed when a man shot them in front of their home late Sunday, according to the US media.
The gunman, who was evicted from his Houston apartment, started a fire to lure his neighbors out, shot five tenants and killed three of them. Two victims died at the crime scene, and one died at a hospital.
“Unfortunately, this suspect has set many homes on fire and is waiting for residents to come out and shoot them,” Houston Police Chief Troy Viner stressed in a press conference.
The Houston police chief added that the firefighters who were battling these fires also had to take cover, before the police arrived and killed the shooter.
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