A man at court with family members opened fire outside a Beaumont, Texas courthouse, killing one person and wounding at least three others. Msnbc's Tamron Hall reports.
By msnbc.com staff
At least one person was shot dead by a man outside a county courthouse in Beaumont, Texas, local media reported Wednesday.
An elderly woman was killed and at least three others were shot, including two rushed to the hospital with several gunshot wounds, KFDM TV reported.
The shootings took place outside the courthouse, in the basement of the county clerk's office and at a bus station.
The suspect reportedly surrendered to police after having holed up in a building two blocks from the courthouse.
A judge told KBMT TV that the suspect is a man facing charges of having sexually assaulted his young daughter, who reportedly is mentally handicapped. He had been expected at a hearing Wednesday afternoon, the judge said.
The Beaumont Enterprise said the judge identified the shooter as Bartholomew Granger, 41.
The shooting follows one at a county courthouse in Washington state last Friday in which a man shot a sheriff's deputy and attacked a judge.
Two days before that a gunman fired shots into the air and then traded gunfire with police outside the county courthouse in Tulsa, Okla., wounding a sheriff's deputy and a bystander.
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