Another shooting has taken place this morning in Dallas, at an office of Financial Advisors. Here is an article from Dallas Business Journal.
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Suspect in critical condition in North Dallas office shooting
Dallas Business Journal - by Chad Eric Watt and Kerri Panchuk Staff writers
Dallas police quarantine a North Dallas office building after two men working in a financial services firm are shot within their office suite.
Two people and a gunman were wounded in a mid-morning shooting at a North Dallas office building.
Dallas police said two people were shot inside the Smith Financial Group office located at 12222 Merit Drive, southwest of the intersection of U.S. 75 and Interstate 635. Two of the injured were transported to Parkland Hospital and were being treated for injuries, said a hospital spokesman. The suspected shooter was transported to Baylor Medical Center on Swiss Avenue. He is listed in critical condition.
Dallas Police spokesman Kevin Janse said the department received a hang-up call to 9-1-1 mid-morning Monday. Officers were en route to the building when another call came in; this one reported that shots had been fired.
Officials said a man went into Smith Financial's office on the third floor of a building, where a father and son work together. The two men are in stable to fair condition, police said. Their identities have not been released.
Police encountered the suspect as he was attempting to leave the building. The suspect raised his arms but then ran back into an office suite. There, he shot himself, police said.
Police said they're still looking to confirm a motive, but did state that the victims knew the suspect.
Vance Maultsby, head of a CPA firm on the 11th floor of the building, said his office was alerted to the shooting by a call from the building’s intercom system.
“We just got a call over intercom, herded everybody into our outside offices and hung out until we got the all clear,” he said.
The police responded quickly, Maultsby said.
“If there was one policeman here, there were 100,” he said. “Apparently they were all around the building.”
Office workers in the 19-story building, also know as Four Forest Plaza, had received an all-clear by about 11:45 a.m.
The building is owned by YPI Park Central Properties, a unit of Younan Properties Inc. A spokeswoman with Younan Properties had no additional information about the shootings at noon Monday.
Dallas Business Journal reporters Joyce Tsai and Bill Hethcock contributed to this report.
_http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2010/03/08/daily5.html
Suspect in critical condition in North Dallas office shooting
Dallas Business Journal - by Chad Eric Watt and Kerri Panchuk Staff writers
Dallas police quarantine a North Dallas office building after two men working in a financial services firm are shot within their office suite.
Two people and a gunman were wounded in a mid-morning shooting at a North Dallas office building.
Dallas police said two people were shot inside the Smith Financial Group office located at 12222 Merit Drive, southwest of the intersection of U.S. 75 and Interstate 635. Two of the injured were transported to Parkland Hospital and were being treated for injuries, said a hospital spokesman. The suspected shooter was transported to Baylor Medical Center on Swiss Avenue. He is listed in critical condition.
Dallas Police spokesman Kevin Janse said the department received a hang-up call to 9-1-1 mid-morning Monday. Officers were en route to the building when another call came in; this one reported that shots had been fired.
Officials said a man went into Smith Financial's office on the third floor of a building, where a father and son work together. The two men are in stable to fair condition, police said. Their identities have not been released.
Police encountered the suspect as he was attempting to leave the building. The suspect raised his arms but then ran back into an office suite. There, he shot himself, police said.
Police said they're still looking to confirm a motive, but did state that the victims knew the suspect.
Vance Maultsby, head of a CPA firm on the 11th floor of the building, said his office was alerted to the shooting by a call from the building’s intercom system.
“We just got a call over intercom, herded everybody into our outside offices and hung out until we got the all clear,” he said.
The police responded quickly, Maultsby said.
“If there was one policeman here, there were 100,” he said. “Apparently they were all around the building.”
Office workers in the 19-story building, also know as Four Forest Plaza, had received an all-clear by about 11:45 a.m.
The building is owned by YPI Park Central Properties, a unit of Younan Properties Inc. A spokeswoman with Younan Properties had no additional information about the shootings at noon Monday.
Dallas Business Journal reporters Joyce Tsai and Bill Hethcock contributed to this report.
