Texas shooting leaves one person dead and nine others in hospital

By Guardian staff and agency • June 13, 2026 • US news

Midland police reported that the suspected shooter was dead after a two-hour standoff

A shooting on Friday in Midland, Texas, has killed one person and sent a further nine to the hospital with injuries, according to the city’s authorities. The possible suspect was in a standoff with officers for around two hours but later on Friday afternoon was reported deceased, police and the city’s mayor said. Law enforcement had rushed to a street in what was described as an industrial area of the city, which lies about 300 miles (500km) west of Forth Worth and Dallas, after receiving reports of shots fired shortly after 8am local time, according to local media reports. The shooting was confirmed on Friday morning by Midland’s mayor, Lori Blong. People were being treated at the Midland Memorial hospital, where the emergency department is reportedly in lockdown as a security precaution. The incident ended near a veterinary hospital. It sounded as though at least 40 shots were fired, said Andrea Mendias, who works at an auto body shop near that hospital. Video from Mendias showed officers pouring out of the back of an armored police vehicle and police deploying robots in the area. Blong said the situation was still evolving and that officers were containing it. The Midland Memorial hospital said four people were in the operating room and five others were in stable condition. The city of 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 Associated Press contributed reporting

Source: The Guardian