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Three people were shot dead in a Texas retirement home on Friday night and two others were found dead in a nearby residence, authorities said were related episodes.
Police in Robstown, Texas, about 20 miles west of Corpus Christi, responded to an "active fire" at the Retama Manor Nursing Center about 7 pm Friday.
Three people were found dead at the retirement home, and the killer was among the dead, said Herman Rodriguez, a spokesman for the city. The officials did not specifically say how the killer was dead, although they said that the threat to the nursing home had been "neutralized" when the officers arrived.
"We are watching a murder investigation", Chief Erasmo Flores of the Robstown Police Department said in a statement
Two people were also found dead at the home of one of the nursing victims, said Mr. Rodriguez. He said that family members went to the residence and discovered the bodies.
It was not clear how these two people died, but Mr. Rodriguez called the attack at the nursing home the "primary shootout."
Robstown is a city of about 11,500 people. The nursing home is a for-profit senior care community, with about 94 beds, according to police.
"It's a deep incident that does not really happen too often in Robstown," Rodriguez said in an interview. with the local media on Friday. "We are a small community and many families, we know each other."
More than 50 people were gathered in the parking lot of the Family Dollar store opposite the retirement home, Daisy Velasquez, an assistant manager of the store, said in an interview Friday night. She said the family members of the nursing home residents were waiting to hear from the authorities.
She said the police entered the store on Friday night and told them to lock all their doors. Authorities first told the employees that there was a stolen flight, she said, and then corrected herself to say that it was a shot.
Sandra E. Garcia contributed to the report.
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