Police in a Dallas-area suburb shot a masked gunman who entered their headquarters Sunday afternoon and opened fire.
The man has since died from his wounds, according to reports from local news outlets Monday afternoon.
Authorities say he shot and killed 26-year-old Isabella Lewis, who picked him up for a Lyft ride, before opening fire inside the @PlanoPoliceDept. Officers then shot Rasheed, and he died at the hospital overnight. https://t.co/NyUKRdelRT pic.twitter.com/xeIx5gWMS7
— Caroline Vandergriff (@c_vandergriff) August 30, 2021
Investigators with the Plano Police Department determined the suspect was involved in the shooting death of a Lyft driver in nearby Garland earlier Sunday. A note from the suspect was left behind in the driver’s car, reports said.
The suspect “may have been inspired by a foreign terrorist organization to commit these crimes.”
— Caroline Vandergriff (@c_vandergriff) August 30, 2021
He was the subject of an FBI counterterrorism investigation from 2010-2013. @CBSDFW https://t.co/qwXAADIbuO
The suspect, who has been identified as Imran Ali Rasheed by CBS Dallas-Fort Worth reporter Caroline Vandergriff, was previously investigated by FBI counterterrorism officials from 2010 to 2013 and “may have been inspired by a foreign terrorist organization to commit these crimes,” according to Vandergriff.
Police shot the man about 12:15 p.m. Sunday after he fired a handgun in the direction of a civilian employee and another person in the lobby of the headquarters, in the 900 block of 14th Street, north of Dallas.
No one besides the gunman was wounded.
The man, who was wearing a black shirt and mask, reportedly had been “behaving erratically” when he entered the headquarters, left and then opened fire when he returned.
While the civilian employee and the other person took shelter, two officers in the building responded to the shooting.
Officials did not say how many times the man was wounded or whether both officers fired at him.
Plano Fire-Rescue took the man to a hospital.
The shooting at the headquarters occurred shortly after Garland police responded to a fatal shooting about 7.5 miles away, in the 400 block of Forest Gate Drive, near Forest Lane and Shiloh Road.
The woman who was shot was a Lyft driver, and the person who reported the shooting said the victim’s car had been stolen. Authorities said she was shot after she had given someone a ride. The female Lyft driver was identified as 26-year-old Isabella Lewis by Vandergriff.
The woman’s car was found after the shooting at the Plano headquarters.
Anyone with information about the investigation may call Garland police at 972-485-4840.
ArLuther Lee of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contributed to this report.
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