Hotel in Dallas evacuated over shooting incident, suspect arrested

  04 July 2017    Read: 1173
Hotel in Dallas evacuated over shooting incident, suspect arrested
A hotel in northern part of the US city of Dallas was partly evacuated and the surrounding area was cordoned off due to the shooting in one of the hotel’s rooms, one person was injured, while the suspect was arrested by police, local media reported Tuesday.
The police was called on 2 p.m. local time on Monday [19:00 UTC] just right after the shooting was heard in one of the rooms of Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Dallas Park Central, according to the WFAA broadcaster.

“SWAT handed the incident as a hostage rescue,” Deputy Chief of the Dallas Police Department Rick Watson said at the press briefing following the incident.

The deputy chief noted that suspect did not resist the arrest and that the police believes that the incident was a domestic dispute.

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