Two people were killed and three were injured in a shooting believed to have erupted after a business dispute near the Korean district outside Dallas, Texas. The suspect is a man in his 60s who ran a restaurant in the local Korean community and reportedly told police the crime was over a money dispute.
According to The Associated Press and Fox 4, a shooting occurred on the morning of the 5th (local time) near K-Town Plaza, a Korean business district in Carrollton, Texas. One man died at the scene, and two men and a woman were injured and taken to a hospital. A report then came in that gunshots were heard at a nearby apartment complex, and police found another man dead at the scene.
Police identified Han Seung-ho, 69, who ran a Japanese restaurant at the K-Town strip mall, as the suspect in the two shootings. Police did not disclose nationality or race, but the local Korean community said he is Korean.
Han fled immediately after the incident and was arrested by police around 12:12 p.m. that day in front of a nearby market. According to local media, during questioning he said he was angry "because of a financial dispute related to business."
Carrollton Police Chief Roberto Arredondo said at a news conference, "It does not appear to be an indiscriminate shooting targeting random people," and noted, "We understand the suspect and the victims were connected through business."
The identities of the five victims have not yet been released. Woo Sung-chul, president of the Dallas Korean Association, told Fox 4, "I knew some of the victims," adding, "They were immigrants who had all lived diligently for their families."
Carrollton is a city of about 130,000 people located roughly 32 kilometers north of Dallas, with an estimated Korean population of about 4,000.