Police respond to active shooter in Midland, Texas

Police are responding to an progressive shooter successful Midland, Texas, connected Friday morning, according to the city's constabulary chief, and officials accidental aggregate radical person been sent to section and determination hospitals.

Midland Police Chief Greg Snow said successful a societal media station that officers heard gunfire coming from a gathering successful the southwestern portion of the metropolis and they rapidly secured the area.

"Armored units were deployed, and spouse agencies assisted successful the response," Snow said on Facebook. "Efforts to bring the standoff with the shooter to a harmless solution are ongoing."

Partner agencies are aiding successful the effect and the enactment continues to extremity the standoff with the shooter, according to Midland Strategic Communications Officer Stuart Doreen.

"We are alert of the ongoing incidental adjacent Industrial Avenue and Wall Street," the metropolis wrote connected its Facebook page. "At this time, nationalist information unit are actively responding, and we inquire the nationalist to debar the country until further notice. Our precedence is the information of our residents and archetypal responders."

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