The gunman, who was shot dead at the scene by police after killing eight people, including children, was named as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia.
Law enforcement have not released details about the identities of the victims."We don't have anything that we're ready to release at this time," Sergeant Jonathan Maness of the Allen Police Department told Reuters."It's a lot of moving parts here."
Officials said three people transported to area hospitals were in critical condition, while four had been stabilised. There have been at least 199 mass shootings in the US so far in 2023, the most at this point of the year since at least 2016, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, called the shooting"devastating" in a Sunday morning interview on Fox News but said that the way to effectively tackle gun violence lies in addressing mental health.
"There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of anger and violence that's taking place in America," he said."We are working to address that anger and violence by going to his root cause, which is addressing the mental health problems behind it."
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