CARROLLTON, TEXAS (VINnews) – A 69-year-old man opened fire during a business meeting at a shopping center in the Koreatown area of Carrollton on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding three others, authorities said.
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The shooting occurred shortly before 10 a.m. at K Towne Plaza, near the Gwangjang Korean Market parking lot in the 4000 block of Highway 121, about 20 miles north of Dallas, Carrollton Police Chief Roberto Arredondo said.
Police said the attack was not random and that the victims knew the suspect. All five victims were adults. Two were pronounced dead at the scene, and the three injured were hospitalized and expected to survive.
The suspect, identified as Seung Han Ho (also reported as Seung Hang Ho or Sung Ho Han), fled on foot and was arrested after a brief chase about 4 miles away at a grocery store, authorities said.
Video posted online showed officers with guns drawn responding to the shopping center. Agents from the FBI and other federal agencies were among law enforcement at the scene.
Carrollton, with a population of about 130,000, has grown into a thriving Koreatown in the Dallas-Fort Worth area over the past two decades.
The investigation is ongoing. No further details on the victims or motive were immediately released.
Is that North Korea town?