Update, November 8, 10:00 p.m.
“We’re all grieving the loss of one of our own tonight,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a press conference given online. However, he said he would not give any information about the victims or the suspect until the families have been notified.
“But our prayers are with him and grief counseling will be available for our Dallas County employees,” Jenkins said.
He said the autopsies for the victim and the suspect will be done in Collin County.
Calls and emails to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office were not returned on a late Tuesday.
A shooting occurred at the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office shortly before 5:00 p.m., with Dallas police and sheriff’s deputies responding to the scene.
Lt. William Fritz of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that there were two dead, one man and one woman. It is unclear what the relationship between the two people was, but several county officials, such as John Wiley Price, suggested that at least one of them was a county employee.
County Judge Clay Jenkins told NBC 5 at the scene that at least two people are dead in what is being described as a murder-suicide.
“It’s heartbreaking. I’m so sorry this happened,” Jenkins stated. “We’ll have grief counseling set up for anybody who needs it.”
The identities of the deceased person and the shooter have not been released, and no further information is currently available.
The Dallas Police Department told The Dallas Express to contact the sheriff’s department for additional information, but they could not be reached before publication.
Will every gov’t. building need metal detectors and security screenings etc. from now on?!