A 23-year-old Marine has been identified as the suspect in a deadly ? and apparently random ? shooting rampage across west Texas, officials said.
Esteban J. Smith, 23, was killed in a gun battle with authorities early Sunday following a two-hour terror spree that spanned two counties and left one woman dead, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Five others were wounded, including Concho County Sheriff Richard Doane.
Smith, of the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base in North Carolina, was already wanted for questioning in the homicide of a woman in a Jacksonville, N.C., motel room, base spokesman Master Sgt. J.D. Cress said in a statement.
In Texas, the active duty Marine allegedly opened fire from his pickup truck with an assault rifle as he drove through rural Concho and McCulloch counties, randomly blasting at his victims.
Three people were treated for their wounds in hospitals and discharged. Two others, including Sheriff Doane, remained hospitalized Monday with nonlife-threatening wounds.
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The mayhem began at about 4:30 a.m., when the gunman shot a driver in the Eden area of Concho County, southeast of San Angelo. She was hospitalized with wounlds that were nonlife-threatening, said Tom Vinger, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Over the next 90 minutes, two more people were shot while sitting in a car at a convenience store in McCulloch County. Both were treated for their wounds and discharged from a hospital, Vinger said.
Shortly after 6 a.m., Alicia Torres, 41, was found dead in her car in Eola, Concho County.
Her cousin said she was parked outside of the family?s home when he heard a car honking.
?Within a few seconds after the horn stopped beeping ... I heard roughly five shots being fired and a vehicle drive off,? Ernest Torres told CBS affiliate KLST.
When he stepped outside, the gunman was gone. His cousin was dead.
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?It?s really random,? Ernest Torres said. ?She was a nice person. She didn?t have any enemies. Why someone would shoot her, we don?t know.?
After peeling away from the scene, Smith crossed paths with Sheriff Doane on a highway north of Eden, authorities said. The suspect fired at Doane, who was wounded in the gunfire and hospitalized.
A state trooper and game warden then arrived and exchanged gunfire with Smith, who was killed, Vinger said.
An assault rifle, handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were recovered from the suspect's pickup.
Police were investigating the multiple crime scenes and didn?t immediately say why Smith was in the area.
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