Police says a suspect was in a stand-off with officers about two hours after a fatal shooting. -AP
A shooter has opened fire in the West Texas city of Midland in an attack that left one person dead and at least nine others injured, the city's mayor says.
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The suspect was in a stand-off with officers about two hours after the shooting that erupted about 8am in one part of the city before ending up near a veterinary hospital, police said.
It sounded like at least 40 shots were fired, said Andrea Mendias who works at a car body shop near the veterinary hospital.
Video from Mendias showed officers pouring out of the back of an armoured police vehicle and police deploying robots into the area.
Mayor Lori Blong said the situation was still evolving and that officers were containing the situation.
Midland Memorial Hospital said four people were in the operating room and five others were in stable condition.
The city with about 140,000 residents sits in the heart of the state's oil region and was near the site of a deadly shooting rampage just six years ago.
In that shooting, a gunman who had been fired from his oil services job killed seven people and wounded two dozen others while firing at random as he drove around the Odessa and Midland areas.
The two cities are more than 480km west of Dallas.
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