At least five people were killed in West Texas, after a 30-year old man, who was stopped by US state troopers when he failed to signal a left turn, opened fire and fled, shooting more than 20 people as he drove, before he was killed by officers outside a movie theatre on Saturday.
Three law enforcement officers were among the injured.
Authorities say the shooting began with an interstate traffic stop in the heart of Texas, where gunfire was exchanged with police, setting off a chaotic afternoon during which the suspect hijacked a postal van and began firing randomly as he drove in the area of Odessa and Midland.
The West Texas shooting on Saturday brings the number of mass killings in the U.S. so far this year to 25, matching the number in all of 2018.
In August, 22 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart store, about 255 miles west of Midland in the city of El Paso, Texas.
- African News Agency
