Police search for gunman after 3 Korean women shot in Texas salon
Global News
Dallas police have not ruled out the possibility that the shooting was a hate crime. The FBI are monitoring the investigation.
Dallas police are looking for a suspect who fled the scene of a local hair salon after opening fire and injuring three Korean women.
The incident took place Wednesday afternoon at Hair World Salon in Dallas’s Asian Trade District, known as the city’s Koreatown.
Police said in a press release that an unknown man “walked into the business and began shooting.”
No clear motive has been established but police Sgt. Warren Mitchell said in a press briefing that investigators are not ruling out the possibility that the shooting was a hate crime.
The salon is Korean-owned and all three victims — the owner, an employee and a customer — are Korean women. They are being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital. Mitchell said that it appears the women were only shot in the extremities.
After interviewing witnesses, police told ABC that they learned the suspect parked “a dark color minivan-type vehicle” on Royal Lane, walked across the parking lot into the salon, then opened fire.
“The suspect then fired multiple rounds inside the business, wounded all three victims,” police said.
In Wednesday evening’s press release, police said the suspect drove off in a maroon minivan.