Man evicted from apartment opened fire on 5 tenants, three killed

America: A man evicted from an apartment building in Houston in the US opened fire on five other tenants, killing three of them. The person had set the house on fire to evict the said tenants from the house. This information was given by the police.

Police Chief Troy Finer said the incident occurred late Saturday at around 1 a.m. in a mixed industrial-residential area of ​​southwest Houston. Police and fire brigade personnel reached the apartment after getting information about the fire, he said. Finer said the gunman opened fire on the other tenants as they left the house.

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He said that two of them died on the spot, while one died in the hospital. He said the fire brigade rescued two other injured and admitted them to the hospital.

Finer said that as firefighters were trying to put out the fire, the gunman opened fire, killing him while police officers defended themselves. He said the identities of no one had been released and that no firefighters or officers were injured in the incident.

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