Round Rock Man Among Those Hurt In Odessa Shooting

ROUND ROCK, TX — A Round Rock man was among those injured in the Odessa, Texas, mass shooting that occurred on Saturday.

Odessa officials on Labor Day identified six of the seven people shot in the massacre in an incident that began with a traffic stop. Seven people ranging in ages from 15 to 57 were killed in the rampage by a gunman later killed by police. Another 23 people — including three officers and a 17-month-old girl — were injured in the attack.

Efe Obayagbona of Round Rock, 45, was among those hurt as outlined in a list of victims released by Odessa city officials on Monday. Six of the victims who died were also listed: Joe Griffith, who was 40 years of age; Mary Granados, 29; Edwin Peregrino, 25; Rodolfo Julio Arco, 57; Kameron Karltess Brown, 30; and Raul Garcia, 35. A 15-year-old girl also died in the gunfire, but was not identified by name.

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City officials said Brown and Garcia were from Brownwood and El Paso, respectively. The others who perished were from Odessa, city officials said.

This is the second mass shooting in Texas this month. Odessa is some 300 miles east of El Paso, where a mass shooting at a Walmart in early August left 22 people dead. The Odessa attack also marked the fourth mass shooting in Texas over the past two years. In November 2017, 26 people were killed in a shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs followed by a May 2018 shooting at Santa Fe High School near Houston that left 10 people dead.