ENNIS – It began in Mabank at the Cedar Creek Cove subdivision at around 2:30 a.m. early this past Friday morning.
That is when 29-year-old Christopher Kyle Reid Jr., from Hubbard is suspected of shooting three people in Henderson County, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
Ennis Police reported on Facebook page, “at approximately 5 a.m. today, a driver in a maroon 2003 Dodge Caravan drove into the southwest entrance of our local Buc-ee’s in Ennis.”
Reid, the driver of the vehicle, struck and pinned a pedestrian against a sales display near the main entrance as the vehicle entered the building.
Once the vehicle came to a stop, the driver used a weapon to shoot himself in the head, according to the Ennis PD post.
The pedestrian, a white female in her 30s from Oklahoma, was passing through Ennis and was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Reid was also transported to a hospital separately in critical condition.
A news release from Henderson County reported they had been looking for Reid in connection to the triple shooting in Mabank.
Deputies arrived at the home in Mabank around 2:30 a.m. and found a man and woman dead and another woman injured, who later died at the hospital.
The victims were identified as Kimberly Simpson, 51; Connie Patrick, 72; and Rodney Hammonds, 57.
The release also stated there were two additional men, Colton Reid, 24, and Henry Hopgood, 70, in critical condition, also sustained gunshot wounds and were hospitalized in Tyler.
Sgt. Chris Williamson, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson said the Texas Rangers and DPS are assisting in the investigation.
Ennis Police are also actively investigating the incident, and no further information is available at this time.