2 dead in Texas veterans clinic shooting
A Department of Homeland Security helicopter flies over the El Paso VA and Beaumont Army Medical Center campus during the search for a gunman in El Paso, Texas on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2014. AP
EL PASO, Texas — Officials say a gunman opened fire at a veterans’ medical clinic in West Texas, killing one person.
Fort Bliss Maj. Gen. Stephen M. Twitty announced Tuesday night that the shooter is also dead.
Twitty did not say whether the gunman was shot by responding officers. He also did not provide any details on the victim of the shooting at the El Paso Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
Douglas Lindquist with the FBI says there are hundreds of potential witnesses, most of whom were seeking medical care. The FBI will be interviewing those witnesses.
The clinic is in a complex that also includes the William Beaumont Army Medical Center.
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