The Southlake Department of Public Safety confirmed they’re responding to an incident near the Central Market at Southlake Boulevard and Carroll Avenue.
SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Shots were fired after a crash near a Southlake shopping center Friday morning where hundreds of people were lined up for a turkey giveaway, police said.
One suspect was in custody, and no injuries were initially being reported, according to an update from the Southlake Department of Public Safety.
The incident, which happened in the area of Southlake Boulevard and Carroll Avenue, was a reported wrong-way driver crash that “escalated to an altercation which escalated into shots being fired,” officials said.
Officials posted on social media around 9:45 a.m. that the incident had spread to the area of the Central Market, which is located on the southeast side of the intersection of Southlake Boulevard and Carroll Avenue.
WFAA chopper footage showed a heavy police presence on the scene and a vehicle that appeared to be damaged from the crash.
Officials were asking people to avoid the area.
A witness, John Maxwell, described pulling up to the scene on Southlake Boulevard and seeing the crashed vehicle before hearing gunshot in an interview with WFAA’s Scoop Jefferson.
“I’m sitting there and I start hearing – it’s like they always say, you think it’s fireworks and you look in your rearview mirror and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, people are scattering, those were gunshots.’ It was probably – it was at least 10 gunshots,” Maxwell said. “I was glad to hear that nobody died, because it was a lot of gunshots.”
A manager at Markham Fine Jewelers said a bullet hit the store’s reinforced glass window, but no one was injured.
This is a developing story. We’ll update this story as additional information becomes available.