Austin Man Among Eight Killed In Plano, Texas, Slaughter (Video)

AUSTIN, TX — A man from Austin is among the nine people fatally shot in a Plano, Texas, home on Sunday, according to reports.

Tony Cross, a Dallas resident in his 30s, was among those shot in the suburb of Plano, his friends told the Austin American-Statesman on Monday. A 3-D animator, Cross was a 2003 graduate from Connally High School, 13212 N. Lamar Blvd., in North Austin.

Friends described Cross as "boisterous" and "vivacious," who possessed an infectious laugh. Another friend told the newspaper Cross was into four-wheeling and was sported an unruly beard that made him distinctive.

"The world is less without him," one friend told the newspaper.

Debbie Lane told WFAA her daughter, Meredith Lane, 27, was among those killed in the shooting rampage. The younger Lane, who owned the home where she was staging a football watch party, had recently divorced her husband of six years. The victim's mother said the ex-husband unexpectedly showed up at the home and started firing, she told the news station.

The suspect—who police have not yet identified—was shot and killed by an officer who arrived at the home on West Spring Creek Parkway just after 8 p.m., police told reporters.

Police said the shooting is the worst one seen in North Texas in many years, the worst ever in the Dallas suburb of Plano. "We've never had a shooting of this magnitude," Plano Police Chief Greg Rushin told reporters at a press conference. "We've never seen this many victims before."

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